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I convert all incoming paper (worth saving) to pdf. From 2005-2020 I used a Fujitsu Scansnap; almost 1 year ago it failed (rollers finally turned from resilien
by cagey 5y ago
I convert all incoming paper (worth saving) to pdf. From 2005-2020 I used a Fujitsu Scansnap; almost 1 year ago it failed (rollers finally turned from resilient silicone rubber(?) into goo, and replacement of these low-cost parts proved impossible). As a stopgap until a current-edition Fujitsu Scansnap went on sale, I started using Genius Scan app on my Android phone, which was quite satisfactory. 6-odd weeks later I bought Fujitsu Scansnap on sale. 2 weeks later I returned the dedicated scanner, as while I valued its sheet-feed capability, the quality of scans from the app was almost as good and I had become annoyed by the physical footprint of the scanner and having to take paper to it, vs scan anywhere (including on the road) with my phone. Compared to 16 years ago when I started "scanning everything", more entities I do business with are providing True PDF statements, etc., which means I do much less scanning of paper docs overall, and the app is quite satisfactory. Paradoxically, the app enables more scanning, of artifacts receipts and menus, that I seldom-to-never scanned prior to 1 year ago.
As far as storage: it all goes on my home (Samba) server with nightly (onsite) backup. Yes, this is a "hoarding" situation; it's easier to keep accumulating than to make (irrevocable?) decisions about what to delete. I know my backup solution is only robust against certain failures, but paring down the huge collection in order to make offline backup feasible means grappling with aging out the appropriate parts of it. This is on my to-do list... Also on my to-do list, once I establish a mission-critical doc-subset, is storing those docs on https://www.fidsafe.com/ https://www.fidsafe.com/
edit: re organizing: it's all manual; pdf file(name)s are auto-prefixed with date-of-scan, and I rename to add a content-denoting suffix, plus move into a dir structure (which has evolved a bit). So, not very efficient, but still much better than pre-scanner (papers stuffed in 2 actual filing cabinets).