Convert Excel To Google Sheets – Here’s How

If you are a Google Drive user and use Google Sheets for spreadsheets, you will inevitably have a situation where someone sends to an Excel file. In some cases you will want to just keep it as an XLS document and view/work with it that way. In other cases, you may want to convert Excel […]

An Apple Pencil Review Drawn With An Apple Pencil

I’ve coveted the Apple Pencil from afar ever since it was announced. It seems like it would be a great solution for paperless note-taking. Now I’m even more convinced after reading Serenity Caldwell’s[1] awesome and unique Apple Pencil review hand-drawn with an Apple Pencil. The writing and drawing parts are really helpful. Even if you […]

Evernote Web Clipper For iOS Now Supports Tags

If you use the iOS Evernote Web Clipper on your iPad or iPhone, you’ll be happy about a recent update – it now lets you add a tag when you are clipping. (Cue Android users laughing because they’ve been able to do this for a long time.) Hit The Share Button To Open The Evernote […]

Evernote Web Clipper Gmail Capture – Archive Your Email With A Click

Are you a Gmail user? Do you keep everything in Gmail, or do you like to save at least some of your email elsewhere? If you like to capture emails to Evernote, you may not realize that the Evernote Web Clipper has a great Gmail clipper built in. Here’s how the Evernote Web Clipper Gmail […]

Document Search Strategy – Group, Don’t Split

For many people, doing a document search involves typing in a word and hoping for the best. For others, they have a specific document search strategy that they’ve honed over time. There’s another group, and that is people who do some pre-work up front to be able to set themselves up for success when they […]

How To Scan To Apple Notes (With A ScanSnap Or Any Scanner)

Apple’s Notes (aka Notes.app) is an application that received a big overhaul in OS X El Capitan. Since its release, I’ve received variations on this question: “How do you scan to Apple Notes (with the ScanSnap or otherwise?)” “No problem”, I thought to myself. I figured all I’d need to do was add Notes.app to […]

Reader Story: Paperless Bill And Tax Workflows With An International Twist

How do you go paperless when you live in multiple locations and have to deal with paperless bill and tax issues? Awesome DocumentSnap reader Allan wrote with his paperless setup, and I thought it would be helpful to share with the DocumentSnap community. You might not be a dual citizen and have deal with international […]

Fix For ScanSnap Blinking Blue Light

If you have a Fujitsu ScanSnap scanner and are stuck with a blinking blue light when you open the top, this post may help you out. The instructions are for Windows. I haven’t had the issue myself, but awesome DocumentSnap reader Evan from Connecticut sent in the following. Take it away, Evan: I was wondering […]

DropIt: Automatically Rename and Move PDFs On Windows

I often say that the holy grail of going paperless is the ability to scan a document and have your computer automatically rename and move it away. Even better if you can automatically process a bunch of PDFs at once. On the Mac, the gold standard is a tool called Hazel, which I have written […]