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I wonder if people know about Google's Stacks app? I don't know if it's as powerful as Paperless-Ngx, but it lets you organize docs pretty easily and some of it is automatic. I have "stacks" for insurance, id cards, receipts, medical records, etc. Whenever I get paper mail, I snap a photo and immediately toss it. I can then organize it in the Stacks app and easily be able to pull it up later. It's a pretty useful, easy solution IMO.

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If it starts with 'google' then at best its something you try out then, if you like it, try and find that functionality in an app made by someone else. Google will kill this app just when you get fully invested. All google apps are traps and foot-guns, especially the ones that work great.

Probably right

Definitely scary as it's under their incubator area120

I can't get it on my, ahem, Google Pixel device running Android 13:

>This app isn't available for your device because it was made for an older version of Android.

Also:

“Stack is only available on Android in the U.S. You can install it through the Google Play store.”

That's weird. I'm using it right now on the Pixel 7 Pro running Android 13.

I usually don't jump on the "Google cancels everything" train, but do keep in mind that Stacks is a project from their Area 120 incubator, which saw heavy layoffs [1]. It's not on the remaining list, so it may have already been cancelled internally and currently in the process of being shut down.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/25/google-spares-three-area-1...

Until they cancel it.

True :(((

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