I’ve really taken to using RSS on the web. When I find interesting sources of information, something that I feel might produce future interesting tidbits, I always look for an rss feed. Lately it’s become much more likely that you’ll be able to find a feed. Then I’ll add the feed to my bloglines page.

However, what just struck me last night was that I have no real history with this setup. One of the ideas that I’ve had in the back of my head for a long time is to have a personal document management system. I’d like all of the documents that I deal with in my life to be able to be put in a system where I can deal with them in an efficient manner.

All of the magazines that I subscribe to scanned in and OCRd.

All of the financial and tax documents that I have to keep track of scanned and OCRd.

My web browsing history and RSS feeds, saved offline and searchable.

This would need to involve such ideas as search, tagging, and browsing. Preferrably this could be set up through a nice web interface. The main issues however are:

I could set this up for myself, but it would be a fair amount of work.

If I set it up as a service I could charge for it, but there would be serious scalability issues.

To really do this the way I’d like would require document scanning and OCR.

I want all of my personal documents that I recieve in the mail accessible, then there are definite security concerns.