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Description
Never lose track of your holiday spending again. Instead of stuffing receipts in your pocket and adding it all up on the way home, I’ll show you how to build a simple expense log right inside the Notes app on your iPhone, scanning each receipt with Scan Documents and grouping them by day. Every receipt is saved as a PDF, neatly organised and easy to scroll through, so you always know exactly what you spent and where.
Transcript
I always come back from trips with a pocket full of receipts that I mean to scan but never actually do, and then you’re on the way home trying to work out what you’ve actually spent, and it’s a mess.
So, I started doing this instead, and it’s so much easier.
Open the Notes app and create a new note for your trip – something like Munich expenses.
Now, every time you get a receipt, simply tap into Notes, press the paperclip icon, and then select Scan Documents. It scans it instantly and saves it straight into that note as well.
I like to add a quick line above or below with what the receipt is – so, dinner €24 or train €8. That way, when you scroll through later, you can see everything at a glance.
You can even add larger headings for each day – Day 1, Day 2, and so on – so it stays really nicely organised.
It takes a few seconds each time, but it saves a lot of hassle later because all of these are saved to your phone as PDF documents, and you actually know where your money went.
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About Notes
The Notes app is a versatile tool by Apple that allows users to create, organise, and share notes across their devices. It supports features like text formatting, checklists, attachments, and handwriting recognition, making it ideal for capturing and managing a wide range of information.
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This QuickTip video was recorded on an iPhone 17 Pro Max
running iOS 27.
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iPhone, iPad and iPadOS are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries and regions. iOS is a registered trademark of Cisco Systems Inc. Whilst I have done my best to list all applicable trademarks for this video, in the (hopefully unlikely) event that I have missed any you can find a full list of trademarks registered to Apple Inc. here.
Finally, please note that whilst every effort has been made to ensure the information contained within this video was correct at time of publication, please be aware that as future updates and software changes occur some or all elements of this video may become outdated. I will endeavour to remove videos which are completely obsolete so as not to cause confusion!
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