Three years ago, my wife and I moved into our new house ((A move that led to the creation of DocumentSnap, actually.)). In the last few weeks we finally started dealing with all the boxes in our garage, and one of them is a big, heavy box of my old college notebooks. It made me […]
Continue readingLast week I travelled down to San Francisco to attend the Evernote Trunk Conference. I wasn’t originally planning to go as it seemed to be mostly a developer-themed event, and the last time I had a developer job was 2002. However, when I saw the session list and saw that some people I really admire […]
Continue readingThis video on Exporting from Evernote is part of a series of quick on paperless tips and topics. View more in the series here. Today’s video is about how to Export from Evernote. It takes you through the different formats that you can use, and what the results look like. View the video below, or […]
Continue readingIf there was some way to find out what the most used non-Apple app on my iPhone and iPad is, it would almost certainly be Instapaper by Marco Arment. I am either saving or reading articles in there every single day. Between my Instapaper use and listening to the Build and Analyze podcast, I spend […]
Continue readingIf you want to scan to Gmail, it is not quite as straightforward as scanning to a normal email program. You generally need a helper application of some sort. This post is a dual update to these two posts: How To Scan To Gmail With The Fujitsu ScanSnap and ScanDrop Updates Cloud Scanning. Unfortunately, what […]
Continue readingToday I’m starting a new series here on DocumentSnap of short one to five minute videos covering a specific tip or topic. Today’s video is about how to use and disable the Quick Menu on the Fujitsu ScanSnap scanners. View the video below, or click here to watch it on YouTube. If you are able […]
Continue reading“Do you need a paper receipt, or is e-mail fine?” Every time I go to the Apple Store to buy something (an event my wife would say is much too common), I am given the option to have my receipt e-mailed to me. In almost every case, I choose the e-mail option. Given the fact […]
Continue readingOne of the most popular posts on DocumentSnap is How To Export Your Data Out Of Evernote. My takeaway from that is that people like to use the service (I certainly do), but they want to make sure that they have a safe and/or convenient way to get their data out when they need to. […]
Continue readingOnce upon a time, Mac author Joe Kissell wrote an AppleScript that would allow you to automatically OCR PDF documents using Adobe Acrobat 8. Back in 2008, I turned that Acrobat OCR AppleScript into a Droplet and posted it to the site. Since the release of Acrobat X, I have received many many (have I […]
Continue readingI’ve been meaning to point to this ever since I saw it on Hacker News, but I was finally motivated by DocumentSnap reader drew in this Batch OCR forum post. Software developer Steve Losh wanted to go paper-free but couldn’t bring himself to drop $400 for a ScanSnap (fair enough), so he decided to put […]
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