There are many ways to copy files over from one location to another on Windows, but one nice free one is provided by Microsoft: SyncToy. You can use it to keep two directories synchronized, or in the video below, you can see how you can use it to back up your documents. View the video […]
Continue readingRecently I was in Phoenix for a business event, and while at dinner with my friends Rebecca and Adam, I did something so unexpected and so shocking that they had to take a picture: Brooks Writing In A Notebook Yep, that is me writing something down in a paper notebook. For someone who gets introduced […]
Continue readingI know that Windows 8 has now shipped, but there are still many, many Windows 7 machines out there, and there is a widespread problem with one flavor of Windows 7 called 64-bit. As I learned, Windows 7 has trouble with PDF searching. That post has helped many people, but I recently came across some […]
Continue readingIf you want to share files with someone, but don’t want to send the file as an e-mail attachment for size or security reasons, there are many ways to do it. This video shows how to do it with Box securely. View the video below, or click here to watch it on YouTube. If you […]
Continue readingI have a thing for simple little apps that do one thing well, and I love it when readers tip me off to them. The other day I posted on Twitter this great article by David Sparks in which he goes through a surefire way to remember keyboard shortcuts. Geoff Airey (aka @Gtdgeoff) pointed me […]
Continue readingWindows fans can rejoice because the latest and greatest, Windows 8, is now out and available for purchase. As I do with every new major operating system release, I thought I would take this opportunity to get your feedback on how it is working with the Fujitsu ScanSnap. Longtime DocumentSnap readers may remember that there […]
Continue readingDid you know that today is World Paper Free Day? Well, now you do. Organized by AIIM, World Paper Free Day is their annual event focused on helping us think about the paper that we use in our lives and organizations, and think about how we can cut back. On their main event page, there […]
Continue readingDoing keyword search in Evernote is extremely powerful. In fact, sometimes it is a little too powerful, and brings back way more than what you are looking for. A good way to find your notes quickly is to limit the search to just the title of the note, and ignore the rest of it. This […]
Continue readingWhen I was at the Evernote Trunk Conference this year, I ran into awesome DocumentSnap reader Brian. As we were talking, he asked a number of questions/brought up a number of points that will be great for future blog posts and newsletters[1]. One of them can be paraphrased like this: “When you are using online […]
Continue readingHere are some of our posts from this week in years past. 2011 How Screenwriter John August Writes Always cool to read the different ways that people use their scanners. Video: Find All PDFs On Your Windows Computer Sometimes you just want to find them all. Doxie Go Goes Cordless Looks like the Doxie Go […]
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