First import
Your first hour is the demo.
Point Thaw at the pile you already have: a folder, an Evernote export, a paperless-ngx export. Come back to everything laid out by person, vehicle and property, with a list of what is missing.
Family archive
Google Drive · 1,284 files
1,131of 1,284 thawed
Sorting 153 moreabout 4 min
Rachel14 current · passport expiring
Tom11 current · all good
Maya6 current · shots up to date
Pepper4 current · rabies due Nov
Two passes
Everything is sorted first, fast: what it is, who it concerns, what year. Then every document is understood in full, current ones first, so the things you are likely to ask about are answerable soonest.
Hints first
Folder names, tags, notebooks and correspondents from the old system are passed to Thaw as hints. Nothing becomes a fact until it is confirmed from the page.
A screen that fills in
People, vehicles and properties appear as they are found. A timeline by year fills in. Then the checkup.
Nothing to review
There is no "review these 200 items" step. Anything uncertain is filed with a flag and surfaces one at a time, later, if they ever matter.
Details
- Sources: a dropped folder, a ZIP, a paperless-ngx export, an Evernote .enex.
- Exact duplicates are recognized by content, linked to the original, and never handled twice.
- Large archives go in from the browser like anything else and are worked through in the background.
Questions
How long does a thousand documents take?
Sorting a thousand documents takes well under an hour. The rest, every fact and date, fills in over the following hours.
Does the free plan cover a first import?
It keeps the first 250 documents and understands 25 of them in full, choosing the most recent across the folders they came in. The rest are kept, deduplicated and findable by the words on the page. If you bring more than 250, Thaw says how many are waiting; nothing is deleted and nothing is turned away for good.
Also
People & thingsThe home screen is the people, pets, vehicles, properties, accounts and businesses in your life, each with what is current, what is next, and what is missing.CheckupFor every person, vehicle, property, pet and business, Thaw knows what should be on file. The checkup lists what is missing, lapsed, expired or duplicated, worst first, each with what to do about it.Up nextA renewal, an expiry, a payment due, a notice period, an appeal window: each is picked out of the document with what happens if you miss it and what to do, including the phone number printed on the page.
Set it up once.
Connect the places your documents already land. From then on they arrive filed and understood, every date with what to do.
Free forever: keep 250 documents, with 25 understood in full. No card to enter.
Emaila rule you set once3 this week
Google Drivethe Family folder, watched2 this week
Scannersends straight to Thaw1 this week
Phonethe camera, for what only exists on paper
This week: 6 arrived, 6 filed, none touched by hand.