ScanSnap Cloud – Scan To The Cloud Without A Computer

I am writing this from the pool area of the Sheraton Atlanta. I only mention this because Fujitsu has released their new ScanSnap Cloud feature, and I figure there is no better way to test it out than with the dreaded hotel Wi-Fi connection. ScanSnap Cloud At The Pool What Is ScanSnap Cloud? ScanSnap Cloud […]

Grace’s Journey To A Paperless Life

What do you do when you go paperless at the office, then move to a home office, and then transition to retirement? How do you create a paperless life? Here’s a guest article by awesome DocumentSnap reader Grace in San Francisco. Take it away Grace: I began my journey towards a paperless life in 1996, […]

PDF Search And The 80-20 Rule – Find Your Documents

We are lucky to be going paperless in a time that all the major platforms (Mac OS X, Windows, Evernote) have great PDF search built right in. If we need to find a document, we have the tools to do it. While we do have the tools, many of us find it overwhelming to actually […]

Scan To OneNote For Mac – What Works And What Doesn’t

When I sat down to write this article, I was determined to come up with a way to scan to OneNote for Mac in some sort of automated fashion. Whether with the ScanSnap or with some other scanner, I figured there must be a way to do it. I wish I could say I was […]

Introducing The Document Search Guide

I’ve heard many people say that there are two type of technology users – searchers (people who will use document search technologies to access the document or the folder they need) and filers (people who will go navigate through their folders/notebooks to look for the file). These are sometimes referred to as “hunters and gatherers”. […]

Going Paperless In Real Estate Management

It’s becoming better, but anyone who has dealt with property knows that there can be a ton of paper involved. Going paperless in real estate involves two broad issues: the paper coming in and then what you do with the paper once you have it. An awesome DocumentSnap reader, who chooses to remain anonymous, agreed […]

Scan To Excel – How A Professional Organizer Did It

What do you do if you have a year (or more!) worth of paper credit card statements and you want the individual transactions itemized in Excel? The thousands of transactions would be a nightmare to input manually – is there a way to scan to Excel and have the data populated automatically? This is the […]

Creating Paperless Structure and Efficiency In Business And At Home

Some of us are looking to go paperless at home, and some of us are going paperless in a business. There’s a third category – those of us who do it both at home and at work. In these cases, giving some thought to your workflow and paperless structure becomes critical. This is the story […]

ScanSnap Evernote Edition: Buy It Or A Normal ScanSnap?

Here’s a question I get quite a bit: “I use Evernote and I want a ScanSnap scanner to go paperless – should I buy the ScanSnap Evernote Edition, or a ‘normal’ ScanSnap like the ScanSnap iX500?” Like most things in life the answer is “it depends”, but I won’t leave you hanging. This guide will […]

Going Paperless In 5 Easy(ish) Steps

I’ve written a lot about going paperless on the DocumentSnap blog over the years, but sometimes it can be helpful to go back to basics. That’s what I aim to do in this article. Making A Going Paperless Plan What you don’t want to do is just go to your office supply store, buy a […]