Hi Rinisari, I work at doo (http://doo.net) and immediately thought of our app when I saw your problem. All of the filing systems listed so far really make sense, and I personally learned a few things from some of the workflows suggested. But using doo would greatly simplify your entire document management.
When you set up doo you select the documents and folders that you wish to connect: not just those imported from connected scanners, but Dropbox, GDrive, the local HD, email, etc. Once documents are connected, the app indexes them and runs OCR automatically. Then it allows you to back everything up and sync it to the cloud for backup and access on other devices.
And it’s all in one spot. Handling the “task of document management” is precisely what we do.
Some details... If your document(s) is already digital – whether it’s a scan on your HD, a Google Drive document, an email attachment, in Dropbox, etc – you can connect the source or just the individual folder/document to doo.
If your document is still paper, you can scan it directly into doo using the app’s interface if the scanner has a TWAIN driver (http://is.gd/15O26Q). If it doesn’t have a TWAIN, we have a guide for quickly setting up top brands, like Fujitsu ScanSnap, Canon and Doxie (http://docs.doo.net/scanguide.pdf). I also just wrote a blog post about it if you want to take a look: https://blog.doo.net/2013/04/04/how-to-scan-with-doo.html.
The coolest thing about doo is that it does the tedious, difficult part of document management for you: the aforementioned automatic indexing and OCR occur right when you connect the document or folder in question, which means document search-and-retrieval is a cinch. After that, should you wish to add a degree of personalization, you can alter existing tags or add individual labels in the app’s intuitive UI.
doo is currently available for OS X, Windows 8 and will be coming very soon for Android and iOS (https://doo.net/en/download.html). Hope that helps! Send us a ticket at support@doo.net if you have any questions.
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Hi Rinisari,
I work at doo (http://doo.net) and immediately thought of our app when I saw your problem. All of the filing systems listed so far really make sense, and I personally learned a few things from some of the workflows suggested. But using doo would greatly simplify your entire document management.
When you set up doo you select the documents and folders that you wish to connect: not just those imported from connected scanners, but Dropbox, GDrive, the local HD, email, etc. Once documents are connected, the app indexes them and runs OCR automatically. Then it allows you to back everything up and sync it to the cloud for backup and access on other devices.
And it’s all in one spot. Handling the “task of document management” is precisely what we do.
Some details ...
If your document(s) is already digital – whether it’s a scan on your HD, a Google Drive document, an email attachment, in Dropbox, etc – you can connect the source or just the individual folder/document to doo.
If your document is still paper, you can scan it directly into doo using the app’s interface if the scanner has a TWAIN driver (http://is.gd/15O26Q). If it doesn’t have a TWAIN, we have a guide for quickly setting up top brands, like Fujitsu ScanSnap, Canon and Doxie (http://docs.doo.net/scanguide.pdf). I also just wrote a blog post about it if you want to take a look: https://blog.doo.net/2013/04/04/how-to-scan-with-doo.html.
The coolest thing about doo is that it does the tedious, difficult part of document management for you: the aforementioned automatic indexing and OCR occur right when you connect the document or folder in question, which means document search-and-retrieval is a cinch. After that, should you wish to add a degree of personalization, you can alter existing tags or add individual labels in the app’s intuitive UI.
doo is currently available for OS X, Windows 8 and will be coming very soon for Android and iOS (https://doo.net/en/download.html). Hope that helps! Send us a ticket at support@doo.net if you have any questions.