Win Scanalog: A Great Way to Organize Magazine Articles
July 6, 2008 by Peggy Rowland
Filed under Home & Living
If you have a scanner and like to store magazine articles for future reference, this contest is for you.
Scanalog is a CD-ROM software system that magazine readers can use to store, catalog and retrieve their favorite articles. There are lots of ways this can come in handy:
• Store and organize recipes, craft/DIY repair directions, patterns and anything you find interesting.
• Go ahead and eliminate clutter and be green — recycle those magazines instead of letting them collect dust.
Included in the Scanalog Magazine Cataloging System (retails for $50):
-CD-ROM Software Program
-Printed SCANALOG User Guide
-SCANTABS Label System (for marking articles as you read)
-SCANALOG Mouse pad
Please only enter if you intend to use this product and you have a scanner and computer. Why? I’d like for the winner to check back in comments to let the readers know how the product worked. Nothing fancy. A couple of sentences. Of course, I can’t make you do that, but it would be nice. . .
Simple rules:
1. Enter once per household before midnight Thursday, July 31. I’ll announce a randomly selected winner on August 1. The winner will have 5 days to respond to my e-mail request for a mailing address.
2. To enter, leave a comment on this post. Tell me anything, but if you want to make it interesting, tell me about your favorite magazines!
Image via Scanalog.
Wow! Great Idea! But fav magazines we would need to scan the whole thing. (Altered Couture, Countryside, Sew News) For the others though it would be great to pass on the whole magazine without tearing out the one ore two must haves for my files
This sounds like a great program – I’ve been meaning to scan and donate my recipe magazines for a while now.
Hi, This is a wonderful giveaway contest. I read “Country Living”, Country Gardens” and lots of similar magazines. I also receive the “Paula Deen” Magazine because my husband loves to cook. This software would be perfect for the two of us because we save home ideas and recipes! Please enter us in your drawing. Many thanks, Cindi
Awesome! Awesome! Awesome! I have a HUGE collection of magazines, Art Doll, Cloth,Paper,Scissors, Somerset Studio, Country Living, Victoria Magazine (THE ORIGINAL), and much more. I’m kinda outgrowing the bookshelf in my spare bedroom. Would love to have the Scanalog software.
just jody
What an incredible software program!
Can you just imagine the space savings? I have so many magazine articles just ripped out to save (I figure just saving the 2 or 3 pages is better than the whole magazine).
Magazines I subscribe to: Real simple, The Sun, The Economist, Cloth Paper Scissors, Good Housekeeping, Cooking Light, Clean Eating, OMG so many more!
Recipes, articles, research so many possibilites. Here I am crossing my fingers that I win!
I would for sure use this! I am a total magazine addict & have torn out articles all over the place! I love scrapbook magazines, Family Fun, Real Simple, Woman’s Day & a bunch more. Scrapbook mags are my weakness though!
I’d love to tell you what I think of the product, I would even do a review on my blog!
This is something I have never thought about before! Didn’t even know that such a product existed…drat you, Peggy! LOL
Wow! This sounds so cool. Please let me win! I have so many magazines and so little space. Thanks for offering this!
This sounds perfect for me. If I don’t win it, I think I’ll buy it!
I rip my magazines apart as I read, clipping articles and ideas. Then they pile up on my desk or, if they’re lucky, get pasted into my ideas journals. Not a very good system.
As for favorite magazines, that’s hard to say because I’m a magazine junkie. I have about 15 current subscriptions and change a few every couple of years just for – well – a change.
This would be sooooo great! So often I want to save an article, but at the same time maybe use an image on an ad on the same page for altering. What do you do! And would clear out a filing drawer of articles and it is so hard to find them when you need them.
I have been sorting my magazines since May and now I am into my favourite ones….Australian Stitchery ones, Mary Engelbreit (sp?), Cross Stitcher and so many quilting ones and I am finding it hard to let go
….this program might be my answer. I am going to check it out RIGHT now, but put it on my buy list and THINK about it.
Excellent idea!
This system sounds like a wonderful idea, magazines are starting to take over my apartment. I just would have to remember to back things up incase of a computer crash.
Actually, I would scan my sketchbooks and notebooks. It drives me crazy when I do drawings and write notes for projects and then misplace the notebook or sketchbook. It would be heaven to have them organized!
I am wowed! And so would my husband be if I decluttered our house from my thousands of old magazines. I am a mother of 4 so I have all the subscriptions from a-z on family and parenting. My fav. from that catagory would have to be “Brain Child”. Amazing, check out their site. I do have to admit while hiding in bathroom from the cauticness, I will scan the Hubby’s favorite (just take a guess). I often find very interesting articles, but could/would NEVER show up at my sons school to share w/ a fellow mom. This program would be great!!!!!
This is a great product. Unfortunately, it’s a little too focused for my needs. I read lots of articles in computer magazines, home improvements, and industrial interests.
Is there a men’s version of this somewhere?
Thanks everyone for entering.
Allen May, I moved your comment to the correct post as you requested. As for your question, I think this is the only version available.
If anyone NEEDS this product, it’s me! I have boxes of old magazines saved in the attic, the garage, the house….all that I intend(ed) to go thru again to save articles. I love magazines, and now, particularly so, craft-oriented mags.
Thanks for the chance to win!
OMG! I would love this! This is absolutely perfect! It was just yesterday I was cleaning out my filing cabinet and pried, yes pried, open the drawer. Every magazine was stuffed, folded, jammed, crammed and bent. I tried once to organize the infamous magazine drawer by using file folders but alas that didnt work- the weight of the magazines was just too much and broke the folders! I rummaged through the drawer long enough to get a few paper cuts, and find a long lost catalog, then everything had to be re-stuffed, folded, jammed and crammed, just to get the drawer to close. I know that this will help! Thanks for the giveaway, and the GREAT blog!
Tanner from http://www.tannersnotes.blogspot.com
This would be fabulous for me! I have tons and tons of articles torn out, some are put into sheet protectors and then put in those huge 3 ring notebooks, but the majority of them are loose, and I lose pages all the time, so I have no way to reference the articles again! Also I have a huge collection of knitting, crochet, beadwork, weaving, spinning magazines that I still have not got around to tearing articles or patterns out of yet! This would save my house! Plus I am getting ready to move, and not having to move all of these magazines (heavy!) would be a huge blessing
I am a magazine fanatic. I want, no NEED, something like this to get my collection under control. Thanks for the chance to win!
This program sound so cool! I enjoy reading techie magazines like, Photoshop Creative, Mac | Life, Advanced Photoshop, Digital Arts, Computer Arts, Web Designer, Cosmo GIRL, and Seventeen. I treat them with a lot of respect. (At least all the computer ones)
What a wonderful idea! I have TONS of art magazines: watercolor, rubberstamping (Rubberstampmadness, Stampers Sampler etc), decorative painting, beading(Lapidary Journal). I even have a stash of old Alene’s magazines that I can’t part with. I’ve been thinking of doing this for years but didn’t know where to begin. What a cool prize!
Wow what a great software idea. I am constantly clipping out recipes or craft ideas from magazines and I never know where to put them, or to find them when I’m looking for them. I am a big fan of All You, and Parents magazine, I like Family Fun also.
My favortie mag would be “Craft” running a close second is “The Walrus.” I also like cheese and drinking tall glasses of cold water.
Last night I was looking at an old notebook that I had rubber cemented articles into 50 years ago. Needless to say it was a mess. How wonderful it would be to not only pass my magazines to someone else, but to eliminate my clippings that are in boxes all over the house. I am so happy that I have lived to 71 to see such wonderful technology emerge. Now on to 100 to get to reread some of it and more importantly work on it!
How wonderful would this set up be!!!! I read a lot of art magazines and zines-always something I want to save for later! Would let me pass on the magazines sooner! Go green!
What a great idea!
Most of my magazines are bead and jewelry related. Ornament, Bead and Button, Beadworks, and more. I would love to try the Scanalog.
Oh, I need this so badly! I’m practically buried in stacks of magazines that have recipes, articles, craft projects, health info, green living tips, etc. etc. etc. that I want to save.
This would be a lifesaver! My husband literally has thousands of magazine articles stacked around the house….I had to buy a separate bookshelf just to try and get some of them off of the floor and surrounding surfaces.