A surprising number of awesome DocumentSnap readers write me and ask for photo scanning and organizing advice. A look at my iPhoto library will tell you that I am absolutely not the person to ask about this subject, but as luck would have it I went to the annual conference of the National Association of […]
Continue readingWell, I have made it home safe and sound from my annual pilgrimage to San Francisco for Macworld/iWorld 2014. It sounds like I just managed to avoid a crazy storm, but between flying out of the Oakland airport for the first time and enjoying a propeller plane ride between Seattle and Vancouver, it all worked […]
Continue readingThere’s an interesting-looking new conference coming up that I thought I’d share, since I know a lot of DocumentSnap readers are into simplification and minimalism. It’s called SimpleRev and it is taking place October 3–4, 2014 in Minneapolis, MN. According to the site, here is what will go on: There will be intimate workshops, inspiring […]
Continue readingIf you a city dweller like myself, you might have this image of a farmer thumbing through his copy of the Almanac that is hanging from a nail while he looks up at the weather vane to see what is going on. The truth is, farming has become incredibly high tech, and it is an […]
Continue readingWhen Windows users ask me about document management software, I almost always point them to FileCenter by Lucion. I can’t think of one person who hasn’t liked it. It can be simple to use and it can be extremely powerful, and searching for files in FileCenter is a perfect example. I get questions from time […]
Continue readingRecently I posted an Alfred Workflow to Select A ScanSnap Manager Profile. Awesome DocumentSnap reader Ray asked if I could turn the instructions into a video, so that is exactly what I have done. Here is a video that shows how to install and use an Alfred workflow, using the ScanSnap one as an example. […]
Continue readingOver the years I have talked to many, many fans of Microsoft OneNote. They tend to fall into one of two camps: Microsoft Windows users who love OneNote and you would have to pry it out of their cold dead fingers, and people who have switched to the Mac and miss the software dearly. The […]
Continue readingBased on the emails I receive, more and more of you are using Google Drive to store your paperless documents. I just noticed that HelloFax has a new Google Drive add-in that allows you to fax your Google Drive documents right from within the Google Drive web interface. I have written about HelloFax before, and […]
Continue readingIt can be extremely frustrating to run into a problem with a software application or service that you are using, especially when you have paid money for it. You can feel helpless or even ripped off. As I mentioned briefly in my Productivity Blueprint Review, I spent years working in and running a software support […]
Continue readingIn my post How I Manage My Life Without Paper, I mentioned that I am becoming more and more interested in the concept of personal tracking and simplifying in general. I am taking baby steps in that regard, but the master of this has to be Joel Zaslofsky from Value Of Simple. Apparently his book […]
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