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Finding a way to organize all the receipts, business cards, and other papers you collect can be difficult. Many people manage their finances and address books on their computers, along with other files, practically guaranteeing that someone is going to need to transcribe each little slip of paper or scan it in individually. Neither approach is particularly appealing, especially considering how few scanners have the optical character recognition software to automatically translate printed documents into something a computer can translate. The NeatDesk, from The Neat Company, offers…

Receipts are a necessary evil: you have to have them to track expenses, calculate tax deductions, and manage your finances. Despite the fact that we need organized receipts, however, most of us resort to the shoe-box method: throw all the receipts in one box and toss it in the closet. It’s not that we don’t know that we need receipts — it’s just that it can take a lot of time to sort and record all those slips of paper. There is a way to get it done without going crazy, though: outsource it. One website, in particular, makes it easy to let someone else handle sorting your receipts. Shoeboxed will scan and categorize every receipt you can send them with no worries.