March 1, 2024

Paperwork Happy

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When I first signed up to fyio I had grand intentions of setting aside a rainy weekend when I would power through the crammed to overflowing filing cabinet and piles of paperwork that were strewn throughout the house. What actually happened the dog’s six month flea and worming treatments arrived through the post, one requiring a monthly dose and the other a dose every three months. It occurred to me this might actually be the perfect moment to upload my first document to fyio rather than adding yet more to the clutter pile and laboriously entering calendar reminders.

This involved two quick snaps of the instructions, uploading each pic to the Pets / Treatment drawer in fyio, adding renewal and reminder dates, adding a note to say where the treatments were stored, saving them and immediately sharing them with my husband. Seeing those two docs land instantaneously in his fyio Pets / Treatments drawer was my fyio magic moment! It had taken less than a minute and Baily’s flea and worming treatments have never been missed since.

That same day, I found and backed up important personal documents like passport, driving license, and marriage certificate, which I also shared, safe in the knowledge that once shared they couldn’t be shared more widely. These are docs that have to be kept in physical format (we keep ours in a fire and waterproof safe) but are so anxiety inducing and time consuming if you lose them and don’t have the numbers and expiry details to hand, and I immediately felt calmer and more in control .

And pretty much from that moment, fyio became a daily habit because it’s just so simple to use. Paperwork that arrived in any shape or format, dry cleaning ticket, home insurance policy as an email attachment, NHS number / letter, MOT certificate, Government Gateway snapped from the laptop screen, were all immediately filed neatly in their relevant drawer and reminders set. By the time I finally set aside time for the big declutter, it was much more straightforward than I’d imagined because by that time, almost everything that mattered was already safe and found in my fyio.

When I first signed up to fyio I had grand intentions of setting aside a rainy weekend when I would power through the crammed to overflowing filing cabinet and piles of paperwork that were strewn throughout the house. What actually happened the dog’s six month flea and worming treatments arrived through the post, one requiring a monthly dose and the other a dose every three months. It occurred to me this might actually be the perfect moment to upload my first document to fyio rather than adding yet more to the clutter pile and laboriously entering calendar reminders.

This involved two quick snaps of the instructions, uploading each pic to the Pets / Treatment drawer in fyio, adding renewal and reminder dates, adding a note to say where the treatments were stored, saving them and immediately sharing them with my husband. Seeing those two docs land instantaneously in his fyio Pets / Treatments drawer was my fyio magic moment! It had taken less than a minute and Baily’s flea and worming treatments have never been missed since.

That same day, I found and backed up important personal documents like passport, driving license, and marriage certificate, which I also shared, safe in the knowledge that once shared they couldn’t be shared more widely. These are docs that have to be kept in physical format (we keep ours in a fire and waterproof safe) but are so anxiety inducing and time consuming if you lose them and don’t have the numbers and expiry details to hand, and I immediately felt calmer and more in control .

And pretty much from that moment, fyio became a daily habit because it’s just so simple to use. Paperwork that arrived in any shape or format, dry cleaning ticket, home insurance policy as an email attachment, NHS number / letter, MOT certificate, Government Gateway snapped from the laptop screen, were all immediately filed neatly in their relevant drawer and reminders set. By the time I finally set aside time for the big declutter, it was much more straightforward than I’d imagined because by that time, almost everything that mattered was already safe and found in my fyio.

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