Why Scannable App Will Make You Want to Throw Everything Away

— -- Need to clean up your desk? There's an app for that.

Scannable, an iOS app from the team behind digital work space app Evernote, aims to help people de-clutter their lives by creating a digital catalog.

Joshua Zerkel, a director at Evernote and a certified professional organizer, stopped by ABC news to help get my desk in shape with Scannable, sifting through old reporter's note books, printed emails and documents I kept scattered in my work space.

"Without you having to spend lots of time sorting through documents and figuring out what to keep and what to get rid of, you can scan the most important things and make them searchable and recycle the paper when you're done," he said.

Open the app, hold the scanner over a document you want to capture. Scannable will automatically crop it and enhance the scan before depositing it in an easily searchable database.

Ronda Scott, director of communications for Evernote, told ABC News that the app lets users have full control of their digital lives without worrying that they could inadvertently be shared with someone else.

After scanning a document, "you decide where it goes," she said. "You can send it to Evernote, Dropbox. You can send it to several different services. It's not being shared anywhere you don't want it to be shared explicitly."