As I mentioned on my appearance on the Mac Power Users show, I have been testing out storing my paperless documents on a Transporter. So far, it has been great. I have my documents accessible from anywhere, and they are under my control. The other day, I noticed a typo in one of my folder […]
Continue readingYears ago, I was working for a large corporation and was given a big promotion. I went from being an individual contributor to running the department and dealing with other parts of the business. I had tasks and responsibilities flying at me from all angles, and I eventually found that things were slipping – I […]
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iBooks is an app from Apple that allows you to read books, but it also makes a fairly decent PDF reader. An awesome DocumentSnap reader asked if it is possible to rename PDFs stored in iBooks and it turns out – it is! It is just not exactly obvious how to do it. View the […]
Continue readingThere are many good things about Microsoft Windows, but the ability to work with PDF documents is not one of them. You can view documents easily enough, but you need to look elsewhere if you want to actually do something useful with them. A while ago, awesome DocumentSnap reader Sherri-Lee Mathers from Balsam Way Bookkeeping […]
Continue readingThe Evernote iPhone app recently added the ability to scan business cards and create a note with the information from the card. Did you know that you can have the information automatically added to your phone’s contacts? The option is a little buried, so this video shows how to set it up. View the video […]
Continue readingSo you are an Evernote user and you want to move your database to a new computer. Maybe you’re moving from Windows to Windows or Mac to Mac, or maybe you’re switching to an entirely new platform. Moving Evernote can be easy, but there are some things you should think about before you start to […]
Continue readingI am a big advocate of reducing as much paper input you can, and part of that is switching to paperless billing. One issue with making that switch is you then have to go in and download all of your different statements, which is not exactly hard work but is still one more thing you […]
Continue readingThere is a certain subset of computer users that I call “keyboard people”, and I’m a proud member. Keyboard people try to do as much as possible using keyboard commands, and only reach for the mouse or trackpad when absolutely necessary. One Mac application that I use all day every day to help with this […]
Continue readingI am a heavy Evernote user, and my primary way to find the note or document that I am looking for is to use the software’s search functionality. It has always worked very well, but the syntax has always been slightly arcane. If you knew the magic words you could get what you were looking […]
Continue readingLong time DocumentSnap readers will know that I am a big GoodReader user. It has been the file system for my iPad for years, and the new iOS 7 update is quite nice. However, recently I have moved to PDF Expert 5 as my PDF application of choice on the iPad. Readdle’s apps are getting […]
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