Having to go through and name each document is one of the less fun aspects of going paperless. There are tools that can help make this easier, and Breevy, a Windows text expansion application, is one of them. If you aren’t familiar with text expansion tools, they’re awesome for anywhere on your computer that you […]
Continue readingThe news is filled right now with hand-wringing about the security of online information (I’m hurt that I’m not famous enough for my nude selfies to make it to Reddit). The seemingly obvious defense is to keep your sensitive information stored locally, but what happens if your computer is stolen? A solution to this is […]
Continue readingA good thing about Evernote is that there is a huge amount of information out there about it. A bad thing about Evernote is the information is spread all over the place, which can make for a lot of searching around if you want to find something. A page I refer to all the time […]
Continue readingThere is nothing inherently wrong with the email app built into iOS, but for quickly processing message there are a number of third-party email clients that make it faster and easier. I had tried most of them, but Mike Vardy tried to talk me into switching to Dispatch. I refused, not because it didn’t look […]
Continue readingDid you know that it is possible to use an image editor like Photoshop from within Adobe Acrobat to clean up a PDF? I didn’t either, but thanks to this post on the Acrobat for Legal Professionals blog by Rick Borstein, now I do: How to Erase and Clean-up a Scanned PDF in Acrobat XI. […]
Continue readingThere is a very good chance that if you are reading about productivity on the Internet, the author (including yours truly) is promoting the benefits of automation. Speaking for myself, I am all for automating as much as possible. Whether it is using something like TextExpander, Hazel, File Juggler, or iOS keyboard shortcuts, I am […]
Continue readingI have to admit that when Evernote announced their partnership with 3M and released Evernote-branded Post-It notes, I thought it was more than a little goofy. Post-It notes? Really? I am not a sticky note person myself, but I know many people are. What is so wrong with normal Post-It notes that there needs to […]
Continue readingThis past weekend, I finally implemented Mike Vardy’s excellent 1Password Emergency Kit so that if I get hit by a bus, my wife will know how to get into all our stuff. Mike’s kit is a helpful PDF form, but since I have the handwriting of a four year old, I prefer to type it. […]
Continue readingA Mac application that has been on my to-do list to check out for years is EagleFiler. I know that a lot of DocumentSnap readers use it to go paperless, so I finally decided to take a look. I don’t know what took me so long. You can class EagleFiler as an “everything bucket” application. […]
Continue readingI was at my parents’ place for our regular Sunday dinner, which is another way to say our weekly tech support session. My father asked me if there was an easy way to take my DocumentSnap articles (hi Dad) and other web pages and save them as PDF. I told him I’d look into an […]
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