For quite a few years, I have kept the family files in a digital format. Rather than mountians of paper, I scan most things and store them securely on an external drive that is constantly being backed up. In order to access these files, I use Microsoft OneNote. It can be a bit of a pain sometimes but it works and it’s simple.
This week, given we have so much mail, I had a lot of scanning and virtual filing to do. Fortunately, being self-isolating, this is a good week to do it. Then, yesterday, OneNote decided to chuck a wobbly.
Apparently, if you change your default browser, it doesn’t like it. It refuses to let you view your own files. And no matter what you do, it just keeps chucking up an error message. And, of course, I changed my default browser last week. This was in order to keep my personal information to myself. I’d dumped Chrome and moved to Vivaldi.
And so, from yesterday morning, I started looking for an alternative for my filing system. And, after a couple of misses, I managed to hit on an excellent one. It’s called Notion and it’s way better than OneNote.
Not only does it allow me to file everything in a handy to access manner, but the software also takes copies of the documents, so I can then do whatever I want with the originals. This is a huge failing with OneNote, something I found out accidentally when I wanted to change my filing system once.
And Notion looks really good as well.
And so, most of today was spent playing with software then moving files around. And while I sat in my office beavering away, the weather gods went a bit mad.
There was sun then torrential rain then a bit more sun then back again. It kept this litany up all day. I wanted to trim my beard but every time I decided it was a good time, the rain suddenly appeared and put the kibosh on it. I should explain that the reason I couldn’t trim my beard is because I do it outside and I would have got drenched within seconds.
Here’s the view from my office during one particularly brutal downpour.
Definitely a good day to be inside. Though Mirinda did manage a bit of gardening between showers.
And to think, we swapped the beautiful continuous sunshine of Sweden for this.
