One of the most common complaints from my family members is of paper clutter. It is in my bed room, living room and kitchen, but the piles of paper that stack up get messy and annoying. Our important papers get lost and time is wasted searching for bills or documents, creating stress and frustration.
The headache begins when as a head of family, I’ve to take care of organising & retrieving online the docs of my family members. Despite all the huge free space provided by these cloud storage guys, my important documents are lost and I can’t get to it on time. Every time a doc is needed, say, Aadhar card or PAN card for id proof in soft copy, I’ve to frantically ask my wife to email it to me, or check various places, including that wooden drawer.
This was a nagging and annoying problem, which we thought of addressing by way of an innovative mobile app-as-a-service. Most current apps with big storage boxes focus on the individual needs, with less regards to what happens when the other family member needs access to those files.
So here I showcase a gorgeous app that eliminates all the headaches of family paper clutter. This app digitizes important papers and notes forever. Our family uses it to safely store the pictures of our receipts, business cards, sticky notes, id proofs, and access it offline from wherever we are. Whether I’m in my living room or at the holiday party, on my laptop or my phone, I’m never left without the ability to get to an important family document.
Features:
- One-click instantaneous sign-up/sign-in using your Google-Id
- A default cabinet My Family already created for you [tip: rename it with your Last Name]
- Allocate a drawer to each family member using their Google id
- Dead-simple invitation to family members [no send-accept-verify loop] – super-fast build
- Start saving important files, begin with your license or PAN card [check your wallet now!]
- Triple3-Level Security: 4-digit device passcode, 128-bit encryption, no password fill-ups
- Blazing fast retrieval, even offline from wherever you are [in a train or at the airport]
Screenshots:
You too can download FamiJoy app for your Android device (very soon for iOS) and have all of your files available on your phone — even offline. With FamiJoy, I can organize my stuff into tags so that I can easily come back to it from anywhere, anytime. Pretty soon, we’d be adding reminders and notes on those files, to enable you to have a secured central family locker.
Reserve your family cabinet now! Download & Install it here.
Did it solve your paper clutter headache? Ask your family members, especially your grand-parents their experience and come back here to share your experience, we need your valuable feedback. Try to answer the following questions:
- How extensively this paper-clutter problem affects your friends, co-workers and family?
- Would you be likely to buy premium features of this app? [what premium features do you expect?]
- What is the best thing you liked about this FamiJoy app?
- What is the worst thing you encountered in the app?
- My twitter handle: @pranaysanghavi
- FamiJoy twitter: @FamiJoy
asha chaudhry
hi pranay,
so i find the concept very intriguing – it does solve a pain point for folks who aren’t so organised for sure!
just one thing – the name of your app – i really think it should be something that describes what the app does.
it should be to do with filing/cabinets/organising/documents
famijoy could be an app that suggests picnic spots to take your family! or anything else…
i hope you get what i’m saying.
ps: pls add your twitter handle at the end!
Pranay Sanghavi
Yup – you are right. The name is supposed to spread joy in the family by making the routine chores more joyful. Nevertheless, thanks for the feedback.
Shall add those to the post. Do give the app a try yourself for your family.
Puneet Arora
Hi Pranay,
Great initiative! But how’s it different from Google Drive? I use Google Drive to store all my id proofs, educational certificates and many other things. And not just my proofs, but I have separate folders for my wife, parents, brother and even for my baby. Each folder is shared with my wife and brother. (My parents are not that techy, so they don’t use Google Drive, else I would have shared this with them too.) All of us have Google Drive app and use it whenever we need any id proof.
Puneet
Pranay Sanghavi
Interesting -and valid – question, Puneet.
My two cents:
I’d implore you to try and ask your parents to give it a try too, and let me know how it goes.
Greg Acuna
Hey Pranay,
Sounds interesting. I’m in the process of downloading it and will make comments once I’ve had a chance to test it, but wanted to make one simple point: You need to make the core functionality clearer. If I understand correctly this is about snapping a pic of important documents, saving, filing and find them. The idea you’re taking the photo on your phone is a tiny reference in the description, but in my opinion it should be the first thing you list your bullets of features.
Alok Rodinhood Kejriwal
Can you change the iconography?
The steel handles look very ugly
While you are replicating filing cabinets, don’t create the same imagery on digital.
I saw your icon on the app store and its quite sad.
Make it smart – add a HAPPY FACE TO It (Ps – what does “Joy” mean)
Sorry for my mean tone – in matters of art and UI, I become a devil
Pranay Sanghavi
Thanks Greg for your time and interest.
Yes, you correctly understood that this is about snapping a pic of your important files, and putting it in the drawer to whom it belongs. [The app will also at a later point in time accept files from other sources].
Point noted.
Pranay Sanghavi
Thanks Alok for your icon and design feedback, I’ll see what can be done.
There was a reason why were are simulating the imagery in the graphics: Speaking about replication, we have re-envisioned mobility to present a natural solution to paper-clutter at your home or office. There are several other apps in market which allow you to manage your files. What’s new here is the concept of Drawers.
Introducing Drawers: FILES WHERE THEY BELONG. TO WHOM THEY BELONG
Insanely Natural. Re-imagined for mobile.
We wanted the user to set up her family in 1-click-per-person, and to bypass the invite-accept-reject loop. As Head-of-the-Family, you can allocate a drawer for each of your loved ones and put the files in their drawers.
Don’t worry about the tone, the devil is in your detail-orientedness 🙂 Keep the feedback coming.
Pranay Sanghavi
May be I should’ve said it thus:
FamiJoy is for family members from 6-year to 66+ year-olds who want to instantly access their important files at one secure place in their pocket.
FamiJoy is a stunningly simple mobile app that provides in under 10 seconds quick offline access to all your essential files.
Unlike cloud storage providers, email attachments or a wooden cabinet, FamiJoy smartly organizes, automatically shares among your family members & timely reminds you your stuff to reliably give peace of mind to you and your loved ones.