Do You Pixily?

Posted by Deb Lee, Certified Professional Organizer®

July 13, 2009

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Update as of February 2010 ~ Pixily is now Office Drop.

Do you Pixily? I don’t (at least not yet) but I heard a bit about Pixily at the NAPO conference in Orlando a few months back. I was pretty intriqued yet wasn’t sure what it was all about, and I wondered if I really needed to use yet another application…especially since I’ve started using Evernote. Then I heard that Pixily is friends with Evernote…and it’s more than just an application. Who knew? Obviously I didn’t know much, so I had a little chat with Anand Rajaram, Co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Pixily. Here’s what he had to say about how his service can help you organize your stuff. What stuff, you ask? Read on…

Who uses Pixily? Who is it for?

Anyone who deals with paper, including individuals and small businesses. Pixily was originally intended to provide a cost effective solution for paper intensive small companies. We didn’t focus on big businesses because they usually have solutions in place, and they invest millions of dollars in those solutions. Pixily can help a 1 person firm or company with up to 20 employees. It’s users are CPA’s, realtors, teachers, lawyers, bookkeepers…and now, school systems. A local public school here in Massachusetts has decided to digitize their documents. They had about 200 boxes of papers dating back to the 60′s. There’s also a school in New Mexico that’s using it for paperwork specific to their special education students.

How long has Pixily been around?

Since August 2007.

How did you come up with the idea to create Pixily?

Prasad, the co-founder and CEO, was in graduate school at the time and had lots of papers useful for the future. Also, the company we worked for back then generated lots of invoices that the bookkeeper kept in the basement of the office. One day, there was an internal audit and we found $100,000 in unpaid invoices. So, you see we faced issues with papers both personally and professionally.

How does it work exactly?

With a monthly plan, we send you a prepaid envelope for you put in the documents you want to digitize/preserve. Alternatively, we can send out prepaid boxes to individuals so that they can send paper to us in bulk. People typically send the documents they want to keep on a specific schedule, about once/month or every other week.

Once we receive the papers, we scan them to the user’s account. We can also send the user a USB flash drive with all their data for an additional cost.

*Click here for pricing information.

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So, what’s the connection between Evernote and Pixily?

Both Evernote and Pixily offer easy ways to capture and access information. Pixily has a web based interface with a visual search that lets you quickly narrow down what you’re looking for. Evernote complements Pixily because it’s compatible with multiple platforms (e.g., iPhone, desktop), and the documents you send to Pixily can be accessed via your Evernote notebook. This means you can use your phone to find a very important document.

That’s a great partnership with Evernote. Any possibility of a partnership with professional organizers?

Absolutely. We currently have an affiliate program for professional organizers. We are considering changes to the program, but meanwhile, we do encourage affiliates to sign up. We will also be doing a webinar specifically for organizers,* and those who attended the NAPO conference in April all got a Pixily envelope mailed to them so they could try out the service.

*Click here to access the June 2009 webinar.

Do you use Pixily for your own personal stuff?

Yes, I use it for papers I get from trainings and seminars and for the papers my son brings home from school.

Anything else you want us to know about your service?

Well, Pixily is a great way to manage paper. You can capture and access ALL your information. Instead of having paper documents everywhere, you will have digital documents that are searchable. Users also get an e-mail address with their account, so they can e-mail documents as attachments directly to their account. For example, if you had a Pixily account, you could send pictures to deb@pixilymail.com. We make it easy for you to access everything you want to keep.

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