Comments on: TIP: Receipts Folder

By: Swazzy

Swazzy — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:25:56 +0000

He’s right, and if you get burgled you’re even more screwed because the insurance companies will ask you for proof of purchase for items that were stolen, and your PC usually gets pinched at the same time so you’re buggered to claim them back.

This is exactly what happened to me, so I ALWAYS KEEP A COPY OF THE RECEIPTS IN THE CLOUD and not on a local disk. I do keep a hardcopy folder of receipts which wasn’t pinched so this serves as the local copy.

By: Mary N.

Mary N. — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:19:06 +0000

This is a great tip! I’m on a PC and I have been saving receipts to a PDF for quite some time now! This saves printer ink and paper, of course, and I also keep any emailed receipts in a folder called “Receipts.”

By: Mark Shead

Mark Shead — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:00:37 +0000

I’ve been wanting to try out Evernote. I’m using DevonThink, but I like the idea of having access to my files from my Blackberry with Evernote.

By: Mark Shead

Mark Shead — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:59:49 +0000

Great tip. Thanks. I still think meaningful file names are important. It is very frustrating when looking at a bunch of files and they are all named 1.pdf 2.pdf, etc. Spotlight is great, but sometimes you want to know the general contents without opening it.

By: Alias

Alias — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:52:13 +0000

Make an alias of your receipts folder in yourHomeFolder/Library/PDF Services and you have it in the print dialog.

I don’t think meaningful file names are necessary. There is always Spotlight to find a PDFed receipt.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:37:07 +0000

This is a new idea for me. And a great one. I usually just save the email confirmation but this way would be easier to maintain (and to locate if needed).

By: James E.

James E. — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:15:11 +0000

All my receipts (paper or electronic) end up in Evernote. I save the digital ones (be it PDF or email) and snap pics of the paper with my mobile and push them all to Evernote; they get tagged with the year and month. Now I have a searchable archive of receipts.

By: catherine

catherine — Wed, 16 May 2007 21:59:23 +0000

I print to a Document Image file (Windows XP) and save the file in a receipts folder. Very quick and easy. If I later need a hard copy I print one. The quality is better than PDF I’ve found.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 15 May 2007 16:16:07 +0000

I print receipts to PDF as well, but from Windows. This can be easily done with PDFCreator (http://www.pdfforge.org), which is open source/free, but does not yet work with Vista. One free Vista alternative is CutePDF which is not open source, but is free (http://www.cutepdf.com). If you want a free way to annotate PDFs, you can use Foxit reader (http://www.foxitsoftware.com) as an alternative to Adobe’s reader. Simply print to PDF out of Foxit with one of the aforementioned PDF writers and you now have a makeshift PDF Writer without paying a red cent.

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 15 May 2007 14:55:21 +0000

I am using ScapBook firefox plugin for things like this. Check it. It works great, plus you can attach notes to pages and even edit the pages that you save.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 15 May 2007 11:57:13 +0000

@Neal – Of course it is only as good as your backups if something goes wrong with your disk. :)

By: Neal

Neal — Tue, 15 May 2007 11:36:57 +0000

Thats a lot better than what I do. I should try that. I usually print it and stuff it in a tabbed organized folder. The digital method seems alot better.