Tuesday, July 29, 2008

The filing cabinet is about to become obsolete



Pixily is a cool scan-by-mail service that launched in early June of this year. The service is similar to Shoeboxed, however, Pixily is all about taking paper clutter out of your life by scanning it in for you and making it both searchable, and able to be organized into buckets. The big difference between the two services is that Pixily is focused less on receipts and finances, and more on day-to-day papers like insurance claims, long cell phone bills (with call lists on them) and little things like birthday cards.

Everything that's scanned goes through optical character recognition (OCR), so you can search for it in the built-in search tool. It also lets you tag, and make notations to documents for the sake of sorting. If you've got digital documents, you can upload them into the mix as well.

Think of this service as Netflix for the office or home.

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