Wirecutter Weekly: The app that completely changed how I do taxes

Staying on top of your taxes year-round can make tax season feel a whole lot easier, we promise. ‌ The app that completely changed how I do taxes [View this email in your browser]( ‌ ‌ [imp?s=265684&li=bb5d08fe40&e={EMAIL}&p=a13ebbb819]( [imp?s=265685&li=bb5d08fe40&e={EMAIL}&p=a13ebbb819] [imp?s=265686&li=bb5d08fe40&e={EMAIL}&p=a13ebbb819] [imp?s=265687&li=bb5d08fe40&e={EMAIL}&p=a13ebbb819]( [imp?s=625037&li=bb5d08fe40&e={EMAIL}&p=a13ebbb819]( ‌ ‌ [Wirecutter Weekly] ‌ The best from Wirecutter in your inbox, every week. ‌ ‌ Wirecutter is reader-supported. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. [Learn more.]( ‌ ‌ ‌ Photo: Kyle Fitzgerald ‌ [Th app that completely changed how i do taxes] ‌ Ganda Suthivarakom, special projects editor ‌ Are you a last-minute scrambler when it comes to taxes? Here’s your official warning—you have eight days left. My office is now pretty much paperless. I made the switch to scanning everything with my phone and shredding it. One of my Wirecutter colleagues recommended a [mobile scanning app]( to me a few years ago, and it totally changed how I do taxes and receipts for filing expenses. No more digging around for papers or fishing for crumpled, illegible receipts at the bottom of my bag. Our printing/scanning guru Ben Keough recommends [Scanbot Pro]( for both [Android]( and [iOS](. I talked to a couple of tax experts about going paperless and I realized I hadn’t been taking advantage of one of the best features on mobile scanning apps—optical character recognition (OCR). “Once I scan a document from paper, I turn on text recognition so that when I search for it I search not only for the document but for any element of the document I can recall,” said Gil Charney, director at the Tax Institute at H&R Block. (Disclosure: We recommend both [H&R Block’s free tax service]( and [TurboTax]( in our guide to the [best tax software]( For more on how to organize and back up your digital tax files so you don’t have to scramble next year, read [our post on how to go paperless]( in your home office. And if you think you may need to hire a tax pro, we have [some advice]( on that too. Another new guide you might be interested in: If you want to stand while you work in the office but can’t bring in your own standing desk, check out our recommendations for [standing desk converters](. We built and worked at 15 different standing desk converters (570 pounds’ worth of desk jockeys) and we like the [Kangaroo Pro Junior]( a manual desk converter that allows you to control the height of your monitor and keyboard tray separately. Also, a quick follow-up on [last week’s pizza story]( we reviewed the [Breville Smart Oven Pizzaiolo]( an $800 countertop pizza oven. Lesley Stockton, our writer, says this thing gets up to 750 degrees Fahrenheit, as opposed to your home oven, which maxes out at about 550 ºF. It also heats up way faster—while a baking stone will take one hour to heat up properly, you can get the Pizzaiolo ready in 15 minutes. Time will tell if the electronics will hold up to that kind of heat in the long run. 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