Browser tabs, amiright? For those of us old and/or geeky enough to remember when tabbed browsing first became available, it was a godsend. No more stacks of never-ending browser windows all over the place. Of course, we still have the same underlying problem. We still have too much stuff open in our browsers; it has […]
Continue readingI have attended the annual conference for the National Association of Professional Organizers for the past two years, and both times I eyed the booth for a product called the Ampad Shot Note. The Shot Note pads are billed as an easy way to digitize handwriting and sketches, and this year they were handing out […]
Continue readingLast week, I did six (!) webinars with Steve Dotto on Going Paperless with Evernote. Steve has now put the replay online along with the bonus materials that I developed and the chat logs from a few of the chat sessions. You guys ask some great questions. Click here for the Going Paperless with Evernote […]
Continue readingWhether you are storing your documents locally or uploading them to the cloud, more and more people are wanting to password protect or encrypt their sensitive documents. There are ways to do this manually, but with the Fujitsu ScanSnap, it can be done automatically. As usual, how you do it depends on the platform that […]
Continue readingA few months ago, Evernote made a change to the way note links work when they are copied and pasted outside of Evernote. A note link is a special link that will go directly to one of your Evernote notes. This can be helpful if you want to go directly to one of your notes […]
Continue readingThe more I work with electronic documents, the more I become convinced that a consistent, descriptive naming convention is the biggest thing you can do to be able to find your documents later. Having searchable PDFs is great, but using a naming convention will help to make sure that your documents are findable, not just […]
Continue readingIf you are going paperless, having an effective and preferably automated backup system is absolutely crucial. I also recommend having your data backed up to at least two places – one local, and one offsite. For years, I have used CrashPlan for my online backup, and have been reasonably happy with it. I haven’t experienced […]
Continue readingI received a Twitter question from awesome DocumentSnap reader (and awesome sculptor) Carol Griffin. She had a strange issue – after she upgraded to Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks, her scanned PDFs were not being indexed by Spotlight, and therefore she could not find them via search. After trying some 140 character-at-a-time troubleshooting (“Are the […]
Continue readingReaders of the DocumentSnap newsletter will know that I have been talking about doing an Evernote webinar for more than a year. I’m happy to say that it is finally going to happen, and best of all, it is going to be totally free. You can learn more and sign up here. There is a […]
Continue readingPeople often ask me if I recommend downloading paperless statements and bills, or if it is okay to leave them on the bank or other vendor’s website. My answer to this is always the same: do whatever works for you, but I always recommend downloading your electronic documents. Why is this? You Need To Control […]
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