Well, I got sidetracked again today. It started with my reading… I don’t read just to read, rather I read to learn and expand so my choice of materials are usually financial newsletter, technical letters and other things of that focus. I do, at times , read a book about old west, or lost treasures or items like Louis Lamore and Zane Grey but not as often as I might. There is just too much out there to learn about that I don’t know… I will never be good at any of it, but I still study those things… To that end, one of my technical letters had a short piece in it about a great little app that is secure, and links to Evernote and Dropbox to download all those statements you get. On my mind was getting all my tax stuff together and statements filed away in some logical order so I would have an easier time setting out to do my taxes later. I also spent time yesterday going back over my bills and getting most all of them set up for electronic delivery. I am somewhat of a hoarder, in that I save receipts and stuff that I don’t need and then have to weed things out and I hope that by putting more things electronic I have less weeding to do later? not sure that is going to work but I am giving it a shot.
Back to my finding, the new app is called “File This” .
At first the article was focused on using it to download all my bills to Evernote. Then when I installed it I find it will save them all to Dropbox just as well… that is great as I can get all my statements downloaded to my Dropbox in PDF format then move them to my filing system that I had started years ago for saving all those things… It will give you “for free” give you 6 statements to download and save. for $2/mo. it will do 12 statements which is about right. I found that it covered almost all of my utility accounts except the city water and sewer and our rural electric coop. I have requested they be included but don’t expect it anytime soon… still as I was setting it up , it went out and pulled down all the most recent statements and some as far back as last year for each account… amazing it had so much stuff in it and nice to have them all downloaded with billing dates and names to define where they came from, etc… each in it’s own folder in Dropbox as well… As I transition to less and less paper billing and more electronic I wanted something secure and this was recommended as the right thing… I will give it a test and see if it keeps my files properly saved
Beyond that little exercise I didn’t get much done today… I cooked a pot of beans in the crockpot for dinner, did some other mundane things around but it was too damn cold to get out and do much else.
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