I hate the boxes of paper records I have to lug around.
Some of the types of documents in my life:
- Records of:
- Financial transactions
- Taxes
- Contracts
- Business cards
- Academic certificates
- Papers I’ve written
- Math
- Creative writing
My goal is to put all my documents (paper and digital) into a single cross-referenced document management system with flexible metadata. Eric Blue recommends SCAN. From what I see, it looks simple and highly useful! I may start using this system and then convert to something else (probably a custom system based on RDF). I just purchased a nice scanner, so I’m going to implement this right away!
This fits into a larger goal of creating a unified model of all the entities I interact with, across all media.
Paper → Image → PDF → SCAN metadata store