Comment by ghaff

>And if you need to dig something out of the POPIB, when you're done with it, file it away instead of returning it to the POPIB. Soon, the POPIB will shrink to a pile of mostly trash that you can store in a shoebox in the back of a closet.

It's also the case that you may legitimately need something out of the POPIB sometime over the next 12 months. Assuming you've been smart about it (I did have an old doc I needed a while ago but I had actually kept it in my fire box because it seemed like something I might need) if something is a few years old, it can probably go in the trash.

The problem with scanning is that there's work involved and if you don't do a decent job with metadata, it's going to be pretty much useless anyway. For a lot of people, file cabinet with folders is probably a good system unless they really are on-the-go or have multiple residences a lot of the time.