Guides
Practical, plain-language pieces on scanning, searching and keeping track of household paperwork — useful on their own, whether or not you ever try the app.
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A home for your paperwork: contracts, warranties, insurance and certificates
Why a photo roll or a notes app stops working after a hundred documents, and what keeping household papers as an archive means in practice.
What OCR is, and why it matters where it happens
Text recognition turns a photo of a page into words you can search. Whether it happens on your iPhone or on a server changes who sees the page.
How to stop missing bill due dates
A due date on each bill and a reminder before it: a simple way to pay on time without a spreadsheet, and what to look for in an app that does it.
Forward e-mailed bills and statements straight into your archive
Most bills now arrive as PDF attachments. Forwarding them to a private archive address keeps them searchable without downloading anything.
Share a document with a link that stops working
Sending a contract or an ID by e-mail leaves a copy in mailboxes for years. A link that expires after a set time or number of opens is a better habit.
Listen to long letters and contracts instead of reading them on a phone
Reading a ten-page contract on a phone screen is hard work. Having it read aloud, with page numbers and headers left out, is easier.
Keep home, work and school documents apart without folders
Separate spaces for personal, work and school papers keep each list short, while search still finds everything in the space you are in.
Searching inside a scanned document, with no connection at all
How on-device text recognition works on iPhone, why it keeps working with no connection, and practical tips for scanning a page so the words come through cleanly.
Why searching "ucet" should still find "účet"
How diacritic folding lets a search work even when you leave the accents off, and how a prefix match plus a fallback search find a word buried inside a long German compound, with real examples in Czech, German, French and Spanish.
A home for paperwork that arrives in more than one language
A practical system for sorting, naming and tagging household paperwork by subject rather than by language, and a plain way to think about what to keep as paper versus a scan.
Why editing a scan should never overwrite the original
What it means for an edit to create a new version instead of changing the file you started with, and why that matters more for a document than for an ordinary photo.
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