Doxie Go SE - The Intuitive Portable Document Scanner with Rechargeable Battery and Easy Software for Home, Office, or Work from Home

I've never really needed, or so I thought, a personal scanner before. I have long and short term memory loss so I've ended up with stacks and stacks of handwritten notes to help me remember things. I also have pages and pages of handwritten diagrams/notes/tablature, etc. from my weekly guitar lessons.I recently acquired a Google Nexus 7 and at the same time decided to give Evernote a try. I love both products and knew there had to be a better way to use both these tools to become more organized. The amount of clutter, in the way of notes, on my desk is overwhelming and I really wanted a way to reduce that clutter yet still be able to find the information when needed.Enter the Doxie Go! I suspect the target market for this scanner is business users who travel quite a bit and need something portable as it's a a portable, rechargeable scanner. I don't fit that market segment but what it does is help me stay organized. It really lets me get the most benefit from Evernote. Most of what I've read on-line about getting the most out of Evernote is to use it, frequently and don't hold back. Dive into it and really use it. Evernote requires a commitment, one I was afraid to make for fear of making things more difficult rather than less. With the Doxie Go utilizing Evernote to its fullest is much easier. I can organize my stacks of paper into folders to help me find things and the OCR built into the easy to use software provided will only help.Now, for more technical details..... The scans it makes are very good in quality. I was skeptical at first, thinking I'd have to use the 600 DPI mode to get the quality I wanted. Not so, 300 DPI has been just fine so far and if I need higher quality I can have it. When I don't I get to take advantage of the smaller file sizes of the scans. I know this is my perception and I've not compared it to other scanners but, frankly, I don't feel the need to after working with the Doxie. What's important to me is that I capture needed information, can find it when I need to and can read it (especially in the case of my teachers scrawl :) . Most of what I scan is devoid of much color so its not a thing that I pay much attention to. I'm not commenting on the color quality at all, good or bad, as that is not of concern to me. Others that have that experience/need can comment on that.Capturing the notes of my guitar teacher is of great concern and he writes lightly, in pencil so I've not had much success getting a good scan from my multi-purpose printer/scanner/fax machine. Doxie Go excels in this arena and the automatic choices it makes for level of contrast are very good. Of course you can change the suggested setting if you desire but I've found the software makes the best choice for me. Of note is that using greyscale or color, as opposed to black and white as the scan type, results in much higher quality scans for notes done in pencil.The form factor is great as I've not much room on my desk, and I also purchased the A/C adapter for it so that I could still scan even if the battery were dead. It has enough power to simultaneously power the scanner and charge the battery.The ability to send my scans straight to Evernote is a huge bonus. I've got the Eye-Fi SD card on order so I can't comment on what I'm sure is going to be an even better experience than what I've had so far, which again, is great.Customer support is fantastic, I contacted them with a number of questions while the unit was being shipped to me. They replied promptly, and gave me the info I needed. And I didn't feel like I was bothering them, they were genuinely interested in helping me. Apparent, the maker of the Doxie Go, is a company I don't mind giving my money to :)Bottom line: Would I buy this again or shop for another unit? I'd buy it again in a heartbeat! I'm a very satisfied customer...

SEE EDIT AT BOTTOM:We love this BUT only after you figure it out the finer details. My wife wants to scan all of our old photos pre-digital so I got her this to help with that mission (we have MANY photos). I have 3 scanners or all in ones in my house and I will say the Doxie Plus is the ONLY way to go for mass scanning images that are 8x10 or smaller. That is all you need to know on the positive and now I will address the issues I had. I am a techi so I assume this can be used without any reading but that is not he case.I did glance over documentation and see that it has built in memory but you can add more via the SD slot. So I grabbed a spare 64gb card and stuck it in there. It would not power on and stop blinking like it was supposed to. After digging I find out that it ONLY supports special SD cards (really!!!!) That is absolutely ridiculous, but there is actually plenty of built in memory.So I removed the SD card and it powers up fine. In the process of trying to figure out the bootup problem (having standard SD card in slot), I tried to locate a "Calibration PDF" on their website. This is the sheet you run through the scanner to calibrate it. Can you believe they make you buy that if you lose it! Another blunder in my opinion. My wife had the calibration page but I am letting you know so if you buy a used one you better make sure the calibration card is in there or your will have to buy another one if the calibration is ever needed again (not sure why you would but just letting you know).Once the scanner is turned on the light is green (300 dpi scan). If you press the button again, it goes to Orange which is 600dpi. They should have a simple sticker above the power button telling you this but they don't and they should allow you to set a default setting which they don't.We are doing photos so we did the scans at 600 dpi which still went plenty fast enough. 300dpi is REALLY fast (ie for documents).After you scan all of your photos, you have to open the software to import the scanned photos. BUT, when you click on the "Import" button in top right corner, it has not completed the import process. After you select all the images on the screen, you have to click on the SAVE button down below actually save them to your local drive. Why they do not allow you to just click the import and have the save process as part of that I do not know. It is just one extra step you have to do to save the photos.But even with these problem I still give this thing 5 stars. My wife is having to use our Epson 7510 for the larger pictures and ones already in the scrap book. The speed and ease of using the Doxie Plus is outstanding. I am sure this product is like everything. The folks who design it and package it, and write the manuals, etc, never actually use it so they have no idea on the simple and stupid mistakes they make.Bottom line, buy one, you will be glad you did :)-----------------------------------------------EDIT 05-19-20151) The Doxie does allow the use of SD cards up to 32GB. And it should be formatted in FAT32. They are considering putting a sticker or some other means of letting customers know that 32GB is the max. In my opinion it might be easier and more effective to update the firmware to allow for much larger SD cards since these are the norm, not the exception in 2015.2) After doing some extensive scanning of not only photos, but documents (ie medical records), it is evident that the saving process designed by Doxie is most ideal. We scanned many photos and documents and the documents we saved as PDF's where the photos were saved as JPG's. Also, the photos were separated by child and year. So I found my original thought on this to be a little misguided.3) Doxie has stated that the calibration card has to be the original printed card. It is a heavier card stock and printing on a 8x11 sheet of paper would not work. You can contact them about getting a Calibration card if yours is missing.I take pride in offering detailed and accurate reviews so I wanted to clarify these issues. But nothing changes on the fact that this device is an awesome little scanner and I am sure you will be happy with it.