When going paperless, there is the eternal balancing act: how do you have access to the document that you need when you need it, but also have it safe and secure? Many people would like the ability to have their documents accessible in the cloud, but (understandably) don’t feel comfortable having them on someone else’s […]
Continue readingAside from possibly the web clipper, e-mailing notes into Evernote is one of the most used ways that I get stuff into Evernote. It is incredibly handy, especially on a mobile device. Many people don’t realize that Evernote gives you a special e-mail address that you can use to quickly send things to the service. […]
Continue readingThis is a guest post from Craig Hollingum from Micro Com Systems, a Vancouver-based document imaging company. I was interested in hearing from him because I find the whole scanning outsourcing business fascinating. If you’re like most people, then you probably don’t enjoy such bureaucratic processes as filing and archiving financial documents. The problem is […]
Continue readingAs someone who writes a “how to do stuff” type site, it can be hard to find that balance between talking about what to do and why you might want to do it in the first place. I always try to focus on how what I write might actually help people, which is why I […]
Continue readingWhen people ask me for Windows document management software recommendations, I more often than not point them to Lucion FileCenter. I’m a Mac user myself, but everyone[1] that I have pointed to FileCenter likes it. It’s very full featured, has nice automation tools, and best of all, it stores your files in the normal Windows […]
Continue readingI recently had the pleasure of talking to reporter Ian Hardy from the BBC (!) about going paperless, and to my surprise my ramblings made it into the article: Clear your desk and go anywhere (almost) paperless. The article has some good advice for going paperless, including some ideas that I had I had never […]
Continue readingEarlier this year, Evernote had a security incident that I wrote about in the DocumentSnap newsletter. The company (wisely) reset everyone’s passwords, which for most people went smoothly. However, there were a number of people for whom the reset did not go so well, and they lost (yikes) any notes that they had un-synchronized. This […]
Continue readingSo you are on your iPhone, iPad, or (I think?) Android device, and you want to save the web page or e-mail to PDF. If you are using Google apps like the Google Chrome browser for iOS, or the Gmail app for iOS, Google makes this easy using their Google Cloud Print and Google Drive […]
Continue readingI didn’t plan it this way, but it looks like this week is my appear-on-podcasts week. Yesterday I appeared on the Productive Life Show, and today I had the pleasure of appearing on the Mike Techniques podcast. If you’re not familiar with Mike Techniques, it is the “other podcast” by Mike Vardy and Mike Schechter […]
Continue readingBeing a big podcast fan, I was very happy to hear about this new show by Daniel Gold and Andy Traub called the Productive Life Show. The podcast is about all the things that I am a big fan of such as Evernote, GTD, and other productivity topics. You can subscribe in iTunes here. The […]
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