Regular DocumentSnap readers know that I use a program called OmniFocus as my task manager, but what you may not know is that I use a different app when I am collaborating with others. For that, I use a web app called Asana. The only problem is I have no idea how to use it. […]
Continue readingI’m becoming more and more interested in Box as a cloud hosting provider for a variety of reasons including ease of use, accessibility, and security. If you’re a Box user, one area you may not have noticed is the Updates tab. You can see exactly what is happening with your files, and you can even […]
Continue readingThis is one of those posts that is only going to appeal to a narrow slice of DocumentSnap readers, but I’ve been using the heck out of this AppleScript lately. Import an OmniFocus Completed Task Report into Evernote via AppleScript. This OmniFocus AppleScript allows you to specify a time frame (e.g. Today, Yesterday, Last Week, […]
Continue readingRecently I did an issue of the DocumentSnap Newsletter where I talked about scanning apps that perform OCR. In other words, an app that gives you the ability to take a picture of a document and make a searchable PDF right on your device. Afterwards, awesome DocumentSnap reader Chip Shanley made the case for Prizmo, […]
Continue readingSo I’m walking through my neighbourhood forest (this is Canada after all) home from dropping off my kids at school and I’m thinking to myself “I wonder which DocumentSnap posts from 2014 were the most popular?” Then I realized “I don’t need to wonder. I can just look this up.” Isn’t technology wonderful? I know […]
Continue readingWhen I am working with PDFs and doing something beyond just viewing and simple manipulation, the application I use on my Mac is PDFpen. I’ve been using it for years. Smile just came out with PDFpen 7, and it has some nice updates and a few cool new features. (By the way Windows folks: PDFpen […]
Continue readingSo apparently January is “Clean Your Computer Month”. I don’t know about that, but the new year is as good of a time as any to get your digital files sorted out. I don’t normally share this sort of thing, but the folks at SingleHop sent me their “Clean Computer Calendar” which is a 3 […]
Continue readingOne of my favourite things is hearing from you about your going paperless projects. Awesome DocumentSnap reader Jay in Phoenix went above and beyond the call of duty and shared pictures of the aftermath of his. Here’s what he wrote: So I’m trying to scan all of my boxed up papers from WAY back. One […]
Continue readingAt the end of each year I do a survey of DocumentSnap readers just like you. Actually I do two surveys: one for the blog (which you are reading now) and one for readers of the DocumentSnap newsletter. In the surveys, I ask four main questions: What is the biggest problem that you have right […]
Continue readingIn October 2014 I had the pleasure of speaking at the SimpleREV conference, and I was lucky enough to speak right before David Delp. I say lucky because by the end of his talk he had us all a) dedicating ourself to our most important goals and b) singing. Thank God I didn’t have to […]
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