This might seem like a strange thing to say, but I am not a fan of the word “paperless”. It creates an unrealistic expectation, and even worse it creates a false binary state. You either want to get rid of 100% of paper (“Go paperless!”) or you only like and feel comfortable using paper (“You’ll […]
Continue readingMany readers choose to support the DocumentSnap site by making online purchases through some of the links that you see here. When you purchase, say, a scanner through one of my links, I get a small commission. A nice thing about this is that at the end of the year, I can take a look […]
Continue readingWhen I want to review and annotate, or mark up, a PDF, I do it almost exclusively on my iPad. For me, it is a nice all-digital workflow that avoids the print-out-and-write dance. I can then save or share the annotated PDF right from my iPad. There are many apps that can do this, such […]
Continue readingI often find myself typing the date of the last day of the previous month. Whether it is financial statements or other documents, it is just a date that comes up all the time. I wanted a way to automate this, so I naturally turned to the Mac applications TextExpander and Hazel. Both tools have […]
Continue readingI’ve written before about the way that tablets are changing the way that pilots access information in-flight, but Federico over at MacStories has taken it to the next level. He has an interview with Erik Hess, a US Navy fighter pilot: iPad in Real Life: Erik Hess, F–5N Tiger II Pilot. It’s a fascinating read […]
Continue readingFor those of you in the United States that have been waiting, it looks like the ScanSnap iX500 is now available on Amazon Prime. From a quick perusal of other countries’ sites, here is some other in-stock availability: Canada – Newegg.ca United Kingdom – Amazon Germany – Amazon France – Amazon Japan – Amazon Note […]
Continue readingEvernote allows you to share notes with either a specific person or create a public link for everyone to use. It is not a bad idea to periodically go through and review which notes you have shared so that you can decide whether they should still be public or not. To do this, you can […]
Continue readingIn December, for the third year in a row, I did a survey of DocumentSnap blog readers and readers of the now bi-weekly DocumentSnap newsletter. I have found this very helpful each year, and last year for the first time I shared the results of the survey with you. Seems only fair. In the surveys, […]
Continue readingYesterday I had the pleasure of appearing on Steve Dotto’s DottoTech radio show and podcast. As you can imagine, we talked about going paperless. My episode is Dotto Tech 90 – Genealogy, Writing And A Paperless Life, and my part starts at about 20:00. It was my first time doing a “for realz” radio show […]
Continue readingFujitsu has just released the ScanSnap iX500. There are many new features, most of which I get into in my iX500 review, but one of them is the ability for Mac users to perform OCR in the background. This is great because now you can scan and then let OCR do its thing creating searchable […]
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