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Show HN: DocumentDeck – Simple Document Management for Individuals

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It would be interesting if you figure out a way to connect it with the actual source of the document. So for example instead of banks or other utility services sending statements/bills etc to my email they should send (upload) it here.

Yes, Even though I think it would be quite hard to get many of these businesses on board. Probably it would be easier to act as a pipe. The user enters e.g. username@documentdeck.com as his email address with the provider and all emails are then forwarded to the user. Thereby intercepting all invoices.

Maybe I'll do custom integrations with big utility companies as you mention. :)

but I do that already using gmail. many banks, utilities etc. have a go-paperless option, I have set rules to route those into specific folders so its auto-organized as well.

Good to hear you found a solution for your problem. Generally I find it good to hear that you had to find a solution to it. That is where I am trying to step in :) and I hope being 10X better than Gmail-filters is possible

Part of the site are in German, other parts in English. Also, the home page looks a little too amateur.

But I'm not your target customer. Internet access is not ubiquitious here, so having everything in a cloud is not for me.

Hi, thanks for the feedback. There are still a lot of rough edges to smoothen. My target market will actually be German-Speaking. i18n was only added for Show HN :)

A client for offline use could be interesting? Is there an App for Windows or Mac to go with?

Not yet in the making, but surely something that will happen down the line.

simple offline app and this could be the digital document safe 2017 deserves. no big data player, German/European servers and law behind it.

some stuff I enjoy while using similar services: - from photo to pdf - auto tag (maybe Textsum: https://github.com/tensorflow/models/tree/master/textsum)

Thanks for the recommendation !

Hey,

I built DocumentDeck because I have a problem of managing all my papers

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If you have any questions I am happy to answer them. The main differences in comparison to Dropbox & Co are that it only hosts your important documents, so they do not get lost. Also you can do fulltext-search on scans (which is partially possible in other providers, too). Also I wasn't quite happy with the way folders are structured so with DocumentDeck you can organize your documents by tags.

There is a lot of things on the top of my head that would make this even more useful, so I am happy to launch this V1.0.

I am happy about any feedback :)

What do you mean by "it only hosts your important documents, so they do not get lost" ? How do you which docs are the important ones ?

Currently you have to upload them manually, so there is a manual selection process by the user. In the future I want to be able to group documents by their type (as most documents follow some template).

In e.g. Dropbox you might also have your family photos or even your downloads folder. This makes finding the really important things harder.

currently I store my "important" documents in my gmail. many banks, utilities etc. have a go-paperless option so all my important stuff goes to my gmail. I have set rules to route those into specific folders so its auto-organized.

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