Thaw blogNotes on paper, filing, and building Thaw.https://thaw.texas.dev/A calendar you never type intohttps://thaw.texas.dev/blog/a-calendar-you-never-type-into/https://thaw.texas.dev/blog/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.Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTFrom Evernote to paperless-ngx to building my ownhttps://thaw.texas.dev/blog/evernote-to-paperless-to-thaw/https://thaw.texas.dev/blog/evernote-to-paperless-to-thaw/Fifteen years of filing my own household, what each tool got right, and the step none of them removed.Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTHow long to keep a document, and when it is safe to shredhttps://thaw.texas.dev/blog/how-long-to-keep/https://thaw.texas.dev/blog/how-long-to-keep/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.Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTImporting a paperless-ngx exporthttps://thaw.texas.dev/blog/importing-paperless-ngx/https://thaw.texas.dev/blog/importing-paperless-ngx/Step by step: run the exporter, get the ZIP to Thaw, and what happens to your correspondents, types, tags and dates.Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTAn obligation is a problem with a solution attachedhttps://thaw.texas.dev/blog/obligations-not-reminders/https://thaw.texas.dev/blog/obligations-not-reminders/"Your policy renews Oct 3" is a notification. What the document actually knows is more useful than that.Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhat Thaw made of one declarations pagehttps://thaw.texas.dev/blog/one-declarations-page/https://thaw.texas.dev/blog/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.Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTPull, don't push: why your paper should come to youhttps://thaw.texas.dev/blog/pull-dont-push/https://thaw.texas.dev/blog/pull-dont-push/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.Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTSetting up a scanner that files straight into Thawhttps://thaw.texas.dev/blog/scanner-to-thaw/https://thaw.texas.dev/blog/scanner-to-thaw/No computer in the loop: how to point a Brother, Epson or ScanSnap at your email-in address and what happens next.Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTTwelve drawers, one chip, and the word nobody seeshttps://thaw.texas.dev/blog/three-axes/https://thaw.texas.dev/blog/three-axes/How Thaw classifies a document on three axes at once, and why nothing is ever "Uncategorized".Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhat a household should have on filehttps://thaw.texas.dev/blog/what-a-household-should-have-on-file/https://thaw.texas.dev/blog/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.Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhat the reader sees, and what it never seeshttps://thaw.texas.dev/blog/what-the-reader-sees/https://thaw.texas.dev/blog/what-the-reader-sees/Exactly what is sent to the model when Thaw reads a document, what comes back, and how corrections are protected from re-reads.Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhere the keys livehttps://thaw.texas.dev/blog/where-the-keys-live/https://thaw.texas.dev/blog/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.Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT