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Cake day: August 15th, 2023

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  • That depends. Is the spreadsheet doing what it’s intended for, or one of the hundreds of things it can do but really shouldn’t?

    I’ve made my fair share of spreadsheets, including time tracking, vehicle scheduling, email automations, map integrations, god forgive me even ‘databases’ - all of that because no one was willing to pay for a proper solution.

    So I’m not saying spreadsheets can’t or shouldn’t ever be used for those things, but a dedicated solution for a problem may indeed be a good reason to change things.




  • Not necessarily, paperless offers various sorting and cataloguing features, as well as rules and basic learning. If you spend time setting it all up, it should drive itself in time and search may only be a fallback mechanism.

    It’s really useful where you can tell it ‘catalogue this as x, but also store it as y’. So, again, if done properly, you can move to another system with already well catalogued document structure.