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Get a head start on your New Year’s Resolution with Pixily

Monday, December 8th, 2008

1) You are halfway across the country attending a meeting for work, or visiting family, and for someYour Child\'s Art reason you need to find a file — a tax form, a newspaper clipping, your kids’ artwork, an essay you wrote — but you don’t have access to it, and now there’s a bit of a damper on the rest of your trip.

2) You look around your desk and filing cabinets, several times a day, and it’s painful to see how the papers have piled up over the years, you wish you could just make it all go away, or at least appear a bit more organized and accessible.

3) You have so many documents, so many papers, all important for one reason or another, because, like mom and dad always say, “keep everything for seven years, even your receipts”. But it just seems so tasking to save everything, how do you collect so many pieces of paper and still keep it in order???

4) You worry that your computer might crash, that your hard drives and flash drives will get lost or broken, and that your important documents aren’t safe from water or fire damage, but don’t know what to do to prevent the irreparable damage that would come if you lost everything.

 

If any of those describe things that you think about, then you need Pixily.

Click Here to get a head start on your New Year’s resolution. Go paperless, get organized, get Pixily!

 Look around your desk. Open your drawers and look inside. How many filing cabinets do you have? How many boxes do you have in storage, or the attic or basement? How much of your home and office do you take up with paper? If you’re feeling like it’s too much, then you might find what Pixily has to offer interesting. Pixily is a personal assistant. Pixily is a safeguard against losing important information. Pixily is a tool that allows you to safely and securely digitize your paper documents and store them in a personal password-protected account online, allowing you to recycle your paper copies and reclaim lost space in your home or office. For every 10,000 pages you recycle, you save one tree. Compare the amount of time it would take you to search through filing cabinets and boxes for one piece of paper, to the amount of time it will take you to type in a couple of words and hit a search button.

 With Pixily, you can use keywords and phrases to search your account for specific documents. Send your papers in a prepaid scanvelope and we’ll scan them into your online account, where you’ll be able to find them anywhere that you have internet access. You’ll receive your original papers back within 3-5 business days, ready to be recycled. You also have the option to have your documents securely shredded at Pixily, and we will recycle the paper for you.

 Pixily isn’t something that you need to think about every day. It’s not a bill you need to worry about coming in the mail every month. Pixily is your personal assistant, your extra set of hands and eyes. You can send as many scanvelopes in a month as you like. And in the meantime, you can start to collect papers and documents for the next scanvelope you’ll send. And there’s no need to worry about losing papers or having a hard drive crash, your documents are stored in “the cloud”, and available for you to access anywhere. (You do have the option to download your fully-searchable documents to a harddrive once they are saved to your online account.)

Pixily also has a staff that is ready to respond to any question you may have about Pixily, your account, or how to go paperless and get yourself organized.

The rich accumulate more paper and hence more clutter

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

More money you make the more paper you collectYes, the more money you make, the more paper you collect. This statement may sound far fetched but it is mostly true. Our firm, Pixily has been studying paper collection habits for almost a year and has found that the education, wealth and age are directly correlated to amount of paper you accumulate.

If you are wondering how I am able to make such a bold statement, let us see what the different sources of paper are and how these sources are impacted by wealth, age and education.

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Searching to Find: The New Way to be Organized

Monday, June 30th, 2008

I always wanted to be more organized and apparently I am not alone.

Almost everybody has this clutter problem. In the offline world there was only one way for order in chaos. One has to be disciplined and almost fanatical about organization as things can get out of order easily. Remember the second law of thermodynamics: it takes high energy to maintain order or equilibrium. Grandma’s rule “a place for everything and everything in its place” is the mantra here.

A single broken-window could destroy all the past hard work. For example, in my case, all it takes for mail to start accumulating is to leave a single mail on our breakfast table. Within a week the clutter would be breathing and talking like a Pixar character. It does get incredibly overwhelming.

Heap of unorganized mails and envelopes

Yet, we accumulate¹ more paper and digital clutter and much of our critical personal information is trapped in this clutter.

The Economist, when talking about the curse of untidiness, says this:

The clutter industry feeds the addiction. Self-storage has been the fastest-growing part of America’s commercial-property business in the past 30 years. There are now almost seven square feet of self-storage for every American. Paying more to store something than it is worth may seem doubly irrational. … Since the urge to accumulate stuff is limitless, so is the scope for selling people stuff to keep it in.

Is there a better way? Can you easily find things without being organized?

Not too long ago, I remember spending hours organizing my Hotmail/Yahoo email folders. Outlook was even more of a pain. A single busy week could undo all the time you have spent trying to get control of your inbox. Even if I had a semblance of order in my inbox and folders, I never won the battle with my sent mail.

It took GMail and Copernic/Google Desktop to help us solve the organization problem. They did so not with Outlook/Hotmail-esque Folders, but with indexing, labeling and search.

David Weinberger’s 2007 book “Everything is Miscellaneous“  talks in detail about “the New Order of Order”.

Pixily is exactly that. We do not sell bins, shelves, totes, carts, trunks, baskets, crates and drawers. Yet we help you become better organized by searching to find.

Check out how Pixily works and Prasad’s post on how we help you get organized. Try Pixily and find it out yourself.

¹Why we accumulate is an interesting topic and deserves a separate post.

What is Pixily and How can I sign-up?

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

I think you will all agree that the best way to launch the Pixily blog is by answering questions that we are asked often when we talk about Pixily with friends, and potential investors and customers.

What is Pixily?

Pixily helps professionals, home offices and small businesses aggregate, organize and find paper and digital documents. You save time, money, space and trees.

How does Pixily mail-in and upload service work?

You mail-in your paper documents at least once a month in pre-paid envelopes and boxes. We scan them into your account and make them searchable. Yes, we make the actual content in the page searchable. When you need a document, all you have to do is search on its content and then download PDF versions of your documents or share them with customers, colleagues and friends. You can also upload all your digital documents and protect them from hard drive failures and natural disasters.

Is Pixily service available today?

Pixily has been in invite-only beta since February 2008 and we have 100s of users using the service. To celebrate our blog launch, we have a limited number of invites available for our early blog readers. Enter pixily-blog for the invite code at www.pixily.com.

How much does it cost?

We are still finalizing our payment plans. Our mission is to democratize expensive Be rest assured that the price will be affordable and provide value for its cost.

Will it be a subscription service?

Yes, it will be a monthly-subscription service.

What can I do with Pixily?

All our paid subscription packages have the following features:

  • Mail your documents and receive them back after digitization using prepaid envelopes and boxes. Postage is FREE both ways
  • Upload all your digital documents
  • Plans start at 3000 online digital pages, about 5 years worth of documents
  • Find documents just by specifying keywords in your paper and digital documents
  • Apply labels to your documents to help you organize
  • Safely share your documents with customers, colleagues and friends
  • Download searchable PDF versions of your paper and digital documents

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