Yep — it’s a good document keeper
I first heard of Kip from FreeMacWare.com and then ran into it again on a blog cast. Both places described it as ”iPhoto for PDF’s, only easier”. When I went to Kip’s webpage this weekend and noted that it has been renamed Yep. That’s okay — it’s still a great system.
It’s easy — tell Yep to import in your PDF file and then you can tag it to your heart’s content. But what it’s a paper your signing? Well, just scan it in. Yep has direct support for a scanner, but I have my printer-scanner on a different PC. I scanned them in and saved them as EPS and JPG files and Yep was able to import them in and save them to a PDF (not as magic as you think, since Preview does it, so this is built into the OS).
Okay, so you have those receipts and paperwork in. So now what? Tag them to your hearts content. Have a doctor bill? Scan it, import it, and then tag it with the name, doctor, etc. When you have it all done, you can display all the documents. Hover over a tag and all the docs that have that tag will be highlighted.
As you can see, this is a lot better than a filing system. But it does dictate having a good backup system in place when that hard drive fails. If you have a Mac, I highly suggest you try it out (it’s free at the moment). If you have Windows or Linux, well . ..I guess are just have to miss out.