I got a new scanner and I expect it to change my life. Which is a lot to expect from a piece of electronic equipment, but isn’t that why we buy electronic equipment in the first place?
My scanner is the iX500, which sounds space-age, and sort of is. It scans 25 pages per minute, which is fast and more than I can keep up with–the pages spit out and pile up and sometimes shoot off the desk. That last bit is an exaggeration.
My hope for (in?) the scanner is that all of the paper that piles up on my desk, my dresser, my kitchen table, the divider between the eating area and the living area, my nightstand, and sometimes the floor–that all of that paper will magically disappear, leaving surfaces clean and inspirational. Because clean surfaces are inspirational, aren’t they? That’s the dream.
Susan Fuchtman 
25 pages a minutes is pretty impressive.
> all of that paper will magically disappear, leaving surfaces clean and inspirational
Have you figured out where you’re going to save the digital copies of your paperwork (on the computer or the cloud) and how you’re going to organize your scans so they could be searched and retrieved at a later time?
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It’s almost two months later and the scanner is actually working out as I’d hoped. It doesn’t take up much room on my desk and it’s very easy to quickly scan a document, file the digital copy, and close up the scanner again, so my desk is staying much cleaner than usual.
I’m saving the digital copies in my computer and backing up to a network hard drive, and eventually I plan to back up to the cloud for even more redundancy. As for organizing my scans, I set up a “scans” folder, and within that there are categories for house, medical, memories, etc. When I scan in a document I include the date in the file name, and try to name them in a way I can find them later. I could scan in as searchable text, but haven’t done that yet.
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