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Notes on paper.
How long to keep things, what a household should have on file, and what we are learning building Thaw.
Sep 4, 2026
A calendar you never type into
Up next is now a calendar subscription and a Monday email. Both come from the documents. Neither needs you to enter a date.
Sep 4, 2026
From Evernote to paperless-ngx to building my own
Fifteen years of filing my own household, what each tool got right, and the step none of them removed.
Sep 4, 2026
How long to keep a document, and when it is safe to shred
The retention rules in the Thaw registry, in plain language: what is permanent, what is seven years, what you can let go of after one.
Sep 4, 2026
Importing a paperless-ngx export
Step by step: run the exporter, get the ZIP to Thaw, and what happens to your correspondents, types, tags and dates.
Sep 4, 2026
An obligation is a problem with a solution attached
"Your policy renews Oct 3" is a notification. What the document actually knows is more useful than that.
Sep 4, 2026
What Thaw made of one declarations page
A one-page auto policy, forwarded by email. Here is everything that came out the other side, and the one thing we had to fix.
Sep 4, 2026
Pull, don't push: why your paper should come to you
Every document tool asks you to carry the paper in. That step is where they all fail, and it is the one Thaw is built to remove.
Sep 4, 2026
Setting up a scanner that files straight into Thaw
No computer in the loop: how to point a Brother, Epson or ScanSnap at your email-in address and what happens next.
Sep 4, 2026
Twelve drawers, one chip, and the word nobody sees
How Thaw classifies a document on three axes at once, and why nothing is ever "Uncategorized".
Sep 4, 2026
What a household should have on file
The expectations behind the checkup: what Thaw looks for, per person, vehicle, property, pet and business, and where to get what is missing.
Sep 4, 2026
What the reader sees, and what it never sees
Exactly what is sent to the model when Thaw reads a document, what comes back, and how corrections are protected from re-reads.
Sep 4, 2026
Where the keys live
How Thaw encrypts your documents: a key per file, a key per account, a master key that never leaves the key service, and what that buys you.
Point it at the pile and walk away.
Early access is open to a small group of households and owner-run businesses. Tell us a little about your paper and we will send an invitation.