If you’re as useless with gadget paperwork as I am, then you might like the idea of an online service specifically designed to let you keep track of things like warranties and contract periods. Niggle It lets you store all your important document information online and receive timely reminders when things are about to expire.
Niggle It is like a repository for all your important purchases – once you’ve signed up, you upload either a scan or a photograph of your contracts, warranties, receipts or any other important docs, then file the originals away. And while it’s always a good idea to keep a digital copy of your important documentation, Niggle It offers the added benefit of sending you timely reminders (called niggles) when key dates are approaching, like the end of your mobile contract or when warranty is about to expire.
You can even use the service for things like gift cards, making sure that they don’t expire in your wallet while you forget their very existence.
The service costs $25 a year for a basic single user or $30 a year for a family. The difference is that the basic plan gets you 70 niggles, 300MB of attachment storage and 5MB attachment file size limit, while the family pack gives you 200 niggles, 800MB of attachment storage and 10MB attachment file size limits. The family pack also gives you a tax deduction report, so you can easily keep track of which gadgets you can claim on your tax return.
Rollz
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 at 4:06 PMSorry, cant quite get it.
I PAY for a site to upload warranty information I could enter into google calendar for free to get a reminder when it is about to expire.
Like, what for? OMG The warranty is about to expire, I had better… what?
a) stop throwing it at the wall
b) buy a new object with a new warranty
c) curse humanity, shave my head and relinquish all material possessions.
Chris
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 at 5:12 PMReally – I think this is rather cool. I have been using it for a while at home and the office and its very different to the way I use my daily Google calendar. It can even flag and consolidate my tax deductable receipts at the right time. I personally capture the receipts using the iPhone App (which is excellent) and the sometimes use the email receipt function. Google only gives me one reminder and its often too late and I cannot do much about it at the time. When I use a calendar for this kind of stuff and clicked through the 15 minutes to go reminder and it’s gone – and forgotten. I have had my share of online calendar screw ups. It won’t replace my daily calendar but I like this stuff listed in a database.
plenty more where that came from
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 at 6:22 PMThe idea is cool, but what if your warranty expires in 3 years, but your subscription runs out in two?
Shane
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 at 11:50 PMyeah, i like the way you can upload your reciept by taking a photo of it at the shop… for me, if i dont do it then, i never will. I’m a simple guy.
Lyn
Friday, August 20, 2010 at 5:15 PMI agree with Shane. Great feature – the iphone app. I have loads of ‘receipts’ that I tend to keep in my wallet for forever, just in case i need it to redeem a warranty etc. I’ve taken photos of these and added the niggles, and have now thrown the receipts out. Love Niggle It.