This post is part of the paperless stories feature at DocumentSnap. Some stories are from readers that have successfully gone paperless, some are still going through it. Would you like to share your story too? Today’s reader story is by Annie Muller. Annie is an avid sewer, crocheter, and knitter. She was awesome enough to […]
Continue readingThis is a guest post from Andrew Morrell at Russell Richardson, a shredding service company. I asked him to fill us in on some of the things you should look for when selecting a provider. A large amount of shredding isn’t good for the environment, whether it’s in an office or at home. Continuously emptying […]
Continue readingBack in November 2012, I held a webinar called Going Paperless With Hazel for members of my Paperless Action Plan online course, and anyone else who felt like attending. Since then, those who have wanted to check it out has been welcome to do so, and I’ve had a lot of great feedback from viewers. […]
Continue readingReaders of the DocumentSnap newsletter will know that I have just returned from my annual pilgrimage to Portland for the World Domination Summit. As usual, the event was great and it was fantastic to meet new friends and catch up with old ones. All of the speakers were great, but I was very struck by […]
Continue readingOne of the more challenging aspects of going paperless is that it seems like you are constantly having to make decisions: which hardware to use? Which software to use? Local or cloud? How do you keep everything safe? To make matters worse, every document that you have represents two decisions: Do you scan it or […]
Continue readingThis is a Guest Post from my friend Amy Payne, a Professional Organizer at Lasting Order. {First off, I want to thank Brooks Duncan for inviting me to write a guest post for DocumentSnap! My name is Amy Payne and I own a professional organizing company out of Southwest Indiana called Lasting Order. I met […]
Continue readingWhen I do talks about going paperless, I often tell the audience that it isn’t realistic to go totally paperless. It’s one reason that I’m not a big fan of the word paperless itself. It turns out that a digital agency called Idea Rebel has proved me wrong, and to make matters worse it is […]
Continue readingI don’t know if it is because I am ¼ Swedish or what, but I tend to spend a ridiculous amount of money at Ikea. I know it is cool to hate on the store, but I like it. Anyone who has purchased items at Ikea will be familiar with the included paper instruction manuals. […]
Continue readingMany people use Evernote for (surprise!) keeping notes, diaries, meeting logs, and other documents that have date-associated content. Did you know that Evernote has a quick keyboard shortcut to insert the current date? This video shows you how to do it on Mac and Windows, and how you can customize the format a little bit. […]
Continue readingLast week I was overjoyed at Hazel 3.1’s ability to do date matching, and I have been migrating my Hazel rules over to use this great new functionality. One question was on my mind though: what happens when the document has multiple dates? Default Date Behavior I decided to do a test using one of […]
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