There 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 readingAfter you press the Scan button on a Fujitsu ScanSnap, a progress window pops up showing you what the scanner is doing. If you, for whatever reason, don’t want that to happen, you can turn that progress window off on the Mac. Over on the ScanSnap Community, they have a helpful tutorial for toggling this […]
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 readingAs far as I am aware, I am not a mom. I’m certainly not a super mom. I can say with reasonable confidence that my wife has me beat in all super mom aspects (sometimes she whips up a batch of muffins in the morning before heading off to her corporate senior management job – […]
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 […]
Continue readingEvernote is a great way to store information for your own reference, but it becomes even more powerful when you use it to share with others. Sharing is easy to do, but it becomes slightly complicated because there are different types of Evernote accounts: Free: Self-explanatory. Premium: Additional storage, sharing ability, and other features. $5 […]
Continue readingI haven’t used a Microsoft Surface myself, but I know it has its fans, as does Microsoft OneNote. Windows users have used OneNote on a tablet for years and years. I remember someone demoing it to me at Gnomedex 2005. The new Surface Pro 3 looks like a pretty cool device, and I came across […]
Continue readingWhen you go paperless, over time you will accumulate a lot of information. This may lead you to ask yourself an important question – how long should you keep your electronic documents? Should you prune them periodically, or should you keep them forever? I need to be open and transparent right off the bat here […]
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