Pixily is a new web-based service that promises to help customers go paperless. The idea is you store all of your documents with them, and they provide a rather elegant looking interface for tagging and searching said documents.
They even have a service where they provide you pre-paid envelopes that you mail in. Pixily, in turn, scans the enclosed papers, OCRs them, and then uploads them to your account. They then mail the documents back to you.
As someone who obsessively preserves every last bit of data I can, I found their service interesting. The interface they have for interacting with documents is very nice — I wish I had such a slick interface on the front-end of my own system.
But would you really want to trust all of your documents and information with an online service? I would not. I’m approaching the point where I have more than 20 gigabytes of data on my webserver, but there are things I would never upload to it even though I own the server and can directly affect the level of security on any application or directory. Uploading it to some web service that may or may not be around a year from now (much less putting documents in the mail where they could be intercepted either intentionally or unintentionally) . . . I don’t think so.