How do you take the business cards you receive and scan the contacts to Outlook? Here’s one way to do it on Windows using the Fujitsu ScanSnap scanner and its included business card scanning application, CardMinder. I find it faster to start up CardMinder first. Then when you scan business cards, they’ll go right in. […]
Continue readingI am not a chess player myself. My then-girlfriend-now-wife tried to teach me once, and it ended up with me storming out of the café. We decided it’s better for our relationship if I stick to FIFA. I recently came across this video that shows a cool project by the Pandatabase to put chess games […]
Continue readingOver the years I have written once or twice about how you can go paperless at home or in your business, and many of you have been very successful doing it yourself. However, sometimes you just don’t have the time, energy, or expertise to do it on your own. It’d be nice if there was […]
Continue readingBased on the emails I receive and your answers to my annual survey, DocumentSnap readers like you are interested in going paperless but are unsure about the following three things: How do you organize your paperless documents once you’ve scanned them? Once you’ve filed your electronic documents away, how do you find them again? How […]
Continue readingDid you know that today is World Backup Day? If you are going paperless you should be backing up every day of course, but if you haven’t started yet, now is a spectacular time to start. Check out the great infographic below that has everything you want to know about backups and more. If you’re […]
Continue readingI have been working on a project that involves making flowcharts. In the past I used Google Docs for this, but the shapes you can use are limited. I even own expensive graphing software, but it is complicated and the look isn’t the greatest. I remembered that someone had once sent me a chart made […]
Continue readingI have been using Evernote since 2008, and it is safe to say that I have a lot of information in there. Travel information, blog posts, kids activities, project notes, call notes, instruction manuals, reference materials, fitness logs – I have a thousands of notes going back seven years. Because of my heavy Evernote usage, […]
Continue readingOne of the best things about DocumentSnap is getting to hear how readers and customers go paperless at work and at home. Everyone has a different story, paperless workflow, and business. Today I’m starting a new series called Going Paperless At Work where I ask the DocumentSnap community about the challenges and solutions they face. […]
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Google Drive is a bit of a weird service. It is a file storage/synchronization service, but it is also an online Microsoft Office competitor. Things get a bit blurred when you upload a Microsoft Word, Excel, or other Microsoft Office file. Do you want it to just store them like any other file? Or do […]
Continue readingSo you’ve decided that you want to have an offsite backup, and online backup is the way you want to go. Many people look at the different options out there and make their decision on price or how pretty the website/software looks. There is nothing wrong with that, but if you are entrusting your sensitive […]
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