Shoeboxed: I'm really enjoying dumping the clutter

Have you checked out Shoeboxed.com recently? It’s the service that takes physical paper clutter from you and then scans/organises it in an online locker. I’ve been using it for receipts, business cards, bills, invoices — all the sorts of things I tend to have to hoard just-in-case.

More recently I’ve been using either their app or the send-via-email functionality to take photos of every receipt in my pocket when I’m on the train. Shoeboxed then adds the meta data to the record online so that I can search the receipts by category, name of supplier/shop, date and so on. This organising is done in part through OCR and human review.

It’s then super simple to query everything online or extra the data as necessary. I’ve been finding this service hugely valuable.

In the States, they’ll send you a ton of free postage-pad envelopes to collect your receipts in. Here in the UK you can either post the receipts or simply snap-n-email as you go.

I’d like the mobile app to offer a lot more than just the basic stuff — there’s a lot more available on the web version — so I’m hopeful they’ll consider a feature upgrade for it soon.

Meanwhile I’m enjoying being organised. If you need their help, check them out!