Scan everything directly into a folder named scanned documents. Dont check the document once scanned, immediatly shred the paper copy. Just use the auto assigned name, if you need to find anything just open the documents one at a time until you find what you are looking for.
Expert level archiving.
How did you know what our company policy is??
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Wait... MINE TOO!
Does your boss also delete all the important emails you send him then ask a minimum of 6 months later to send it to him again?
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I have been asked to recover a lost email after someone deleted the email, then emptied the trash, then compacted trash, then defragged the hard drive.
Fortunately I setup a duplicate email account for selected users a long time ago, and it was simply a case of grepping the files (one email per file) to find the "lost" email.
This is a true story, unfortunately.
As far as going paperless, I still prefer paper bills, then I can staple the receipt to each one and put it in my filing cabinet. I have a lot (many thousands) of personal documents that I started scanning, but there are just too many and it is taking waaay too long.
For (paper) filing, I have a few folders for each address, and each folder contains various utility bills. Financial statements tend to be grouped in folders by year.
Files for old addresses or old years get archived in archive boxes and put into the shed.
I have too many boxes of old files.