When you’re researching scanners, sometimes you will see that this or that scanner does or does not support something called TWAIN. Good to know, but what on earth does that actually mean? It turns out that TWAIN does not actually stand for anything (ah, computer geeks), but you don’t care about that anyways. All you […]
Continue readingRecently there have been a number of interesting posts outlining how various tech folks use Evernote. For example, check out this experiment by Mike Vardy in which he is going to try to use Evernote for almost everything over the next 30 days. Readers ask me all the time how I use the software, and […]
Continue readingA big part of my paperless workflow is a wonderful application called Hazel by Noodlesoft. Among many other things, I use it to automatically name and file away as many of my paperless documents as possible. This Thursday, November 29 I will be doing a webinar for my new friends in the Paperless Action Plan […]
Continue readingBy way of David Sparks on Twitter, I came across this excellent post by Chris Holscher: Going Paperless: Learn & Start from the End. It ties in nicely with Daniel Gold’s Slideshare about focusing on the process that I posted about last week. When I do talks about going paperless, I always start out by […]
Continue readingOne of my favorite applications on my Mac is Alfred. I use it all day every day, and it is impossible for me to believe that I have only posted once about it in all of DocumentSnapdom. There is a lot (and I mean a lot) that it can do, but this video covers how […]
Continue readingFor the past few years, the Productive Macs Bundle has been extremely popular with DocumentSnap readers. So much so that I have received e-mails over the past few days asking me to write about the latest bundle from a paperless perspective. As usual, your wishes are my command. If you’re not familiar with how bundles […]
Continue readingDaniel Gold, who is (among many things) the author of Evernote: The Unofficial Guide To Capturing Everything and Getting Things Done recently did a talk for MortgageCoach.com, and posted the slides up on SlideShare. The talk is Focus On The Process and Not the Tools. There’s no audio, but you get the gist by reading […]
Continue readingThe Evernote apps for iOS just recently had a big redesign, and I have noticed one question that keeps coming up: where the heck did the Saved Searches go? This video takes you through how to find them on the iPad and iPhone. By the way, I like the new apps. They are much, much […]
Continue readingA nice thing about online backup services is that they are automatic. You install the software, let it run, and then it should take care of everything for you.[1] The hands-off nature of any good automated backup program is a plus, of course, but from time to time I get questions from readers that can […]
Continue readingIn the latest class of my Paperless Action Plan course (amazing group by the way), I had a number of questions about software to manage receipts and other documents on the Mac. The two big players are Mariner Paperless and NeatWorks. A few participants asked me to open the question up to the greater DocumentSnap […]
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