![]() ![]() I met the developers from Creaceed at Macworld years ago and they were lovely people. I started by taking another look at Prizmo from Creaceed for iOS. I’ll follow that short explanation with the app I’m in love with. He believed in the phrase my mother, the Podmom, used to always say, “if you can’t say something nice, say nothing at all.” I repeat all of this because I’m actually going to talk first about an app I don’t recommend yet I know and like the developers. I was highly influenced in my approach here by the great Tim Verpoorten of the MacReviewcast. ![]() There are those amongst you who disagree with that approach and say that I owe it to tell the NosillaCastaways to stay away from devices and applications that I think are bad. The other is that I don’t like to pan an app or a device publicly. I still will tell you what I don’t like, but I’ll be gentler in the way I describe the deficiencies. One is if I’ve met the developers (and liked them) it’s harder for me to be critical. I mentioned last week that there are two things I have trouble with in doing honest reviews. I realized that I have a couple of scanning apps on my iPhone, maybe I should give them a try. I’ve taken photos of bills with my iPhone, then had to wait till the photo moved to the cloud and back down to my Mac, then export it, rename it by hand, then copy it to my Drobo, then delete the original on my Mac, and finally delete the original in Photos. But sometimes I have a single bill that I want to make sure gets filed right away. Ok, let’s get back to the story and the tech that might solve my annoyance problem with scanning.Īs I mentioned, Steve pays the regular bills and does the scanning into our Drobo for long-term storage. I like to see what someone is charging me because I’ve caught so many companies pulling a fast one over the years that I don’t trust anyone! Finally, we could set up auto-pay but I think that’s a really risky maneuver. We could also just set up a scheduled time to pay bills but we’re not that structured, believe it or not. A piece of paper on my desk that is screaming “You owe us money!” is much more compelling than an email that I might not want to deal with right away and am in danger of leaving unread. This is probably an “old habits die hard” situation, but our brains are wired to pay bills when paper shows up at the house. In any case, I’m glad he took it over.īefore I explain why I’m doing so much whining about scanning, I should probably answer the question so many of you are yelling into your devices, and that’s “Why are you still getting paper bills?” Or maybe he got tired of the giant stack of unscanned papers I’d leave on top of the filing cabinet because I’d procrastinate so long since I hated it that much. Maybe he got tired of hearing me whine about it. I have no idea why he volunteered for such a thankless job. Luckily Steve took over the scanning task from me a while back. When the rules work properly, it makes scanning about 80% less annoying, but that’s still a lot of annoying left over. I watched David Sparks awesome 2.5 hour Hazel Video Field Guide where I learned how to have Hazel recognize the optical character recognition (OCR), find the dates on bills and such, rename the files to have the name of the company and the billing date on them, and finally whisk them off to my Drobo network attached storage. I hate how they have to be updated all the time.Ībout the only part I like about scanning is having Hazel triage my scans. I hate that ScanSnap installs so many apps. I hate fighting with getting the pages into the scanner correctly. I hate making room on my desk for all the unscanned papers and for the ones that shoot out of the scanner. I hate dragging out my Fuji ScanSnap scanner. I hate scanning almost as much as I hate printing, and I really hate printing. ![]()
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