Documents

Type a word into the search box search —«blood test», the doctor’s name— and the list keeps only what matches. The filters underneath narrow things down in a different way: «Recent» are the ones from the last 30 days, and «With photo» the ones that carry an attached image. The number on each filter tells you how many there are without your having to tap it.

With «Scan with AI» document_scanner you take a photo of the paper and the app works out what type it is, extracts the text and fills in the title and the date on its own. Before you finish, check what it has understood and save.

If you do not have the paper in front of you, or it is a note of your own, choose «Add manually» edit_note and fill in the «Title» —so that you recognize it later on: «Cardiologist’s prescription»—, the «Document date» and the «Content».

Sometimes you want to keep the photo of the paper just as it is, not only the text. With Plus or Pro, «Attach image» add_photo_alternate opens a sheet with two options:

• «From gallery» — for when you have already taken the photo or somebody sent it to you over WhatsApp.
• «Take a photo of the document» — this opens the same scanner the app uses to read prescriptions, with edge detection and several pages.

That image is stored encrypted like everything else. Up to 10 fit in each document, in case the report has several sheets.

Slide your finger across the image to go from one sheet to the next. The little dots and the caption «Page 1 of 2» tell you how many there are and which one you are on, so you do not have to remember how many there were.

In the detail the image looks small, just enough to recognize it. Tap it —or use the arrows icon in the corner— and it opens full screen, on a black background.

At the bottom you have a reminder of the gestures, and the one that saves the most struggle is the double tap: it zooms in without your having to pinch. To close it, tap the image or the ✕ at the top.

You do not need to open the document in order to delete it: every card in the list carries its own bin to the right of the title. And inside, at the bottom, are «Edit» edit and «Delete» delete.

Before deleting, it asks you to confirm —«Delete document?»—, and with good reason: once it has been deleted it cannot be recovered, neither the text nor the images.

And about access to the images: anyone who stops being a member of a group loses access to its photos straight away, not the next time they open the app. The permission is checked on the server every time an image is opened, so no window is left in which they could still be seen.

Two details about those two buttons. «Edit» is only offered to whoever created the document, so on one that somebody else uploaded it does not appear, even if you have permission to edit. And if the group is in read-only mode or has a announced closure, neither of the two appears, nor the bins in the list, not even for the person who organizes the group.