*Giveaway closed, Irina G. you are the winner! I will be emailing you soon. Thank you everyone for entering the giveaway.
There will always be a learning curve when it comes to technology. Sometimes it’s just hard to tell if you are making the right choice on a product until you get it home and try it out a bit. I thought my all in one printer, scanner, copier and fax thing was the greatest when I bought it. But not once have I made a fax and the scanner is slow as day if I have a lot of papers to scan. Now I really wish I would have bought a laser printer and did away with the rest. Sometimes you don’t know until you try.
Since my next printer will most likely do JUST printing I have been looking into some scanners. I’ve heard about NeatReceipts quite a bit in the organizing world so I checked out the website and I loved what I saw. But would it really fit my needs? I asked the folks at The Neat Company if I could give the NeatReceipts scanner a try. To my surprise I was told the NeatDesk for Mac was coming out and I could try that. To top that off they sent the NeatReceipts for Mac portable scanner for a giveaway to one of my lucky readers! Woo Hoo!
Hold on, before we get to the giveaway let me give you the rundown of all the things I liked about the NeatDesk…
- It is beautiful! I love coming across technology that also has good looks. This machine is sleek!
- It is super easy to set up and operate. The unit itself has only 2 buttons and 1 power switch.
- It is small enough to fit on my desk. All I have to do is reach over and load the documents and push scan.
- It comes with NeatWorks it’s very own neat little library to store all of your documents. My favorite feature is the ability to use tags so you can easily reference the material you scan later.
- It has a divider so you can scan business cards, receipts and documents all at the same time without a jumbled mess. Without the divider you can scan 50 documents at one time.
- It didn’t jam when I scanned about 40 documents! This was a mixture of papers and receipts in one stack and it didn’t miss a single one.
- It is fast! Using OCR slows it down a tad but it is worth it to do a search within the documents text.
- It scans business cards and you can pull the information right off the card and into your contact management program.
- It is beautiful! Oh, I said that already? Well it is. :)
Overall I am seriously ecstatic about this scanner. I have been scanning all kinds of papers!
Now I have to tell you the NeatDesk is not made for photos. It will scan them but the output is not the best quality. I wouldn’t put a stack of heirloom photos in there! That might be testing the limits on what will jam. I would say this is the only downfall of the NeatDesk however it is not really built for photos. It is a document scanning powerhouse!
This scanner really does what it says. I normally wouldn’t go for something in this price point of $450 – $500 but I needed something that can handle paper quickly. This would have been a wise investment for my business. The smaller NeatReceipts portable scanner would be perfect for the home and well worth the price when your trying to tackle the paper pile up.
Now is your chance to win your very own
NeatReceipts for Mac portable scanner AND travel case!
Leave a comment letting me know what your biggest paper problem is.That’s it!
You have until midnight Tuesday June 9th to enter.
A winner will be announced Wednesday, June 10th.
Remember there will be one new giveaway every Wednesday during the months of June and July! Come back for the next chance to win. Have a great summer everyone!
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I’m my biggest problem! I am worried that I’ll need the paper again… I run my own home based business so I have business cards, order forms, receipts, credit card statements, you name it and I can produce it’s paper equivalent ON my desk! I’m a piler so piling things neatly into this scanner and then tagging them would be heaven!
GREAT post!
Kelly
Are you serious? I am SO thrilled! And beyond excited! I never win anything and this is such a needed little thing. THANK YOU! I’ll put it to great use!
I would have to say that paper clutter is totally making my life miserable! I have to get my house put up for sale asap as my dh has a job out of town and we are slowly getting ourselves into a financial crisis. We are making two house pymts. and paying cash for two boys in college. I have been “paper challenged” my entire life! I tend to save newspaper articles, geneaology info, and just everything under the sun that makes this household run. However, there is no way that I can continue to save all the things I have. Of course I will keep any personal and sentimental paper items. I have been trying to figure out what it is that I need to get my act together. So, hope I win this!
My biggest problem is that I have paper EveryWhere! In Piles, in drawers, in closets. I also tear out pages from magazines with the hopes of getting them organized so I can one day find them again but that never happens. We are trying to downsize and this would definitely help me get the paper under control!
My biggest problem is the amount of papers we have in our house. Between filing papers, receipts, business docs etc etc. It all adds up so fast! This sounds like it would be a life saver. I LOVE the idea of scanning things right away into my MAC. It would seriously make my life easier and much more organized in the paper area! Thanks for the chance to win this!
My biggest problem is trying to *find* documents again. First I not sure if I have filed them yetvso they could be in a pile so ordered by depth most likely. But then on the off chance that I did file it who knows what scheme to look it up under. Having it all digital I could the computer find it for me.
Oh boy what a find and it’s portable! I travel to the USA and other places and have to keep all my receipts for tax purposes. They go into a plastic pocket, into my suitcase and then home. Here they go into a file and stay there till the last possible moment when the tax return has to be done. By this time many of the receipts are so faded that I can not read them! With this gadget I could scan them in straight away and onto my MAC. My accountant would love me.
Hubby keeps every single possible receipt he can. He tries to keep them neatly but then I come along with mine and shove them into a drawer or the file or the desk and they get wrinkled and lost. The clutter is getting out of control so tis would so help us try to curb that.
My biggest paper problem is accumulating a lot of documents over the years and not knowing what to do with them. I mean, most of them are filed away, but if I ever need to find something it’s not really possible just because of the sheer amount of paper. Having this scanner would help tremendously! Thank you for this wonderful give-away!
This would help so much! I agree with the printer thing. I have yet to use my fax, make a copy, and the scanner sucks!
I am a virtual assistant, so making my paper less cluttered on my desk would help so much! Plus getting all my business cards scanned would make it so much easier to network.
Hope I win!
I have been super curious scanning my receipts/paper clutter. This seems like a perfect solution! My biggest paper problem is that I tend to make a lot of “piles”. I hate it and hate seeing the piles all around me. I need to stop procrastinating and just deal with each piece of paper the first time I touch it.
Doesn’t matter who you are, you are going to have excess papers floating around. Being able to store them electronically is a wonderful thing. I had such a nice time meeting the representatives of the Neat Co. at NAPO ’09 conference!
As I specialize in organizing paper, you’d think I wouldn’t have any paper issues, right? But I don’t have a scanner, so I have to suffer the (tidy) clutter of receipts and business cards, which I’d gladly scan. Particularly, I’m frustrated over the business cards, as I’d far rather have a potentially-portable digital database of all my contacts. (Plus, you know there’s always one person who has to have a non-standard sized business card. What’s up with that?)
My biggest paper problem is that my husband is a paper pack rat. He thinks every piece of paper we have ever generated needs to be saved FOR LIFE. I am running out of room to pile receipts in our office!
My biggest paper problem is having too much of it! It piles up so easily and then I have to take the time to sort it and I often get distracted and then I don’t know what my piles are. What a mess!
My biggest paper problem is just the sheer volume of paper that enter my home. Entirely too MUCH!
Thanks for just a great giveaway!
Alex
I saw these things in action in the expo at NAPO conference 2009 and have been coveting the NEAT DESK ever since.
My biggest paper problem is properly filing/ordering the ton of insurance paperwork and medical bills we receive.
Thanks for offering this great giveaway!
~J
My biggest paper problem is the years of collected documents in boxes in the closet. One of these days I need to either get them in the computer or throw them away, but many are financial docs. Thanks for the opportunity to win the scanner, that looks like it’s pretty cool and would do the job!
My paper’s pretty under control with one large exception: business cards. I have piles of them that I seem unwilling to part with but also unwilling to enter into my contact software.
This will definitely help with that. It is also nice to be able to see the actual business card, I am very visual and remember what the card looks like more than who gave it to me. :)
My biggest paper problem is having too much and no where to neatly store it. As a writer, I have a lot of clippings, torn out magazine pages, scribbles, etc. As a business owner, I also have a lot of receipts, invoices, etc. It would be great to have all of that paper clutter scanned electronically for easy storage, back-up and retrieval.
I know what you mean and it feels so good to have it all scanned now!
Biggest paper problem? It’s a tie between receipts and coupons.
My biggest problem is that I have a two year old running around reeking havoc on my paper piles!!! My goal this upcoming year is to go paperless so I never am trying to find the other half of a crayon colored bank statement again!!! This tool would be awesome!!! Please, please, puhhhhhhlllllleeeeaaasssseeeeeee! Sorry…I have been hanging out with my little one too long!