Hi Janeymaisy, thanks for your comment. I run a small business from home and I worry about throwing papers away, afraid I may need them later, that’s why I decided to scan docs. Didn’t bother with any special software, just storing them by quarter is enough for my piece of mind. I don’t think I’ll ever need to look at them again.

As for my flowchart, is just something really basic that makes sense for my business. For example, I tend to buy stuff for myself and my customers. Whenever some invoice arrives I need to answer some questions before I can decide what my next action is:
- did I buy item for my business/some customer? If bought for customer I need to pass this to them (I was forgetting to do this and losing money, how stupid of me!)
- has invoice been paid already? If not, schedule payment. If yes: did I pay myself (personal account) or using business card? Different actions accordingly. And so on, very boring stuff that needs to be done, without my flowchart I was just getting confused and dealing with the same paper more than once, now paper arrives and I follow a system. So far so wonderful.

So I’m not sure what to suggest you, perhaps you could think about what you usually do and try to come up with a system that makes sense to you. Best of luck!