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Clean Out the File Cabinet with Manuals Online

072109_tf_onlinemanuals1.jpgTrying to get orgnaized? Here's a cool new Web application that might help you get started on that less-than-tidy file cabinet full of mostly useless paperwork: Manuals Online helps you locate—and save for later!—user manuals, how-to guides, installation instructions, and tutorials from most every manufacturer and product you've got in your home...

 
 

072109_tf_onlinemanuals2.jpgAll you have to do to get started is head on over to TheUSerManualSite.com. You can browse manuals by product type, by brand or search with keywords.

The manuals and guides stay stowed safely in cyberspace, but are available for download as soon as you drop the batteries out of universal remote (Who hasn't had to look up that damn code for their TV model a thousand times?).

Top image from MechanicJosh98 at Flickr with a Creative Commons license.

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For a good write-up on other options, see the article by professional organizer Julie Bestry: http://www.onlineorganizing.com/BlogEntry.asp?id=2267

posted by Jeri Dansky on July 21st 2009 at 9:44am
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Husband scans the sales receipt, and the product manual, even the box, if the manual and box are easy to scan. But we have often used on-line manuals for things we bought used, or for lost manuals.

posted by SunnyBlue on July 21st 2009 at 11:25am
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Downloading is far better than offline storage, manuals are a pretty small file size.

posted by funstraw on July 21st 2009 at 12:47pm
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