You have long been able to share notebooks with Evernote, but the company has added the ability to share individual notes as a link. I have found this surprisingly handy. Here’s an example. I tend to scan magazine articles into Evernote that I think may be useful. Yesterday, a friend told me that he was […]
Continue readingThis post is part of the paperless stories feature at DocumentSnap. Some stories are from readers that have successfully gone paperless, some are still going through it. Would you like to share your story too? Today’s featured DocumentSnap reader is Harvey Levine. Fifteen years of data to store Fifteen years ago I became a serious […]
Continue readingI came across this tip thanks to last week’s Dropbox security debacle. I believe I picked it up from John Gruber. I have used Dropbox for a long time, but have somehow missed this feature. In the web interface, you can see a log of all changes that have been made to files in your […]
Continue readingHi there, Readers of the DocumentSnap newsletter will know that I have been putting together a new offering for Fujitsu ScanSnap owners. I’m happy to announce that it is now ready to go. The Unofficial ScanSnap Setup Guide helps answer the question “how the heck do I use my awesome ScanSnap scanner in the most […]
Continue readingLongtime readers will know that I am a sucker for stories of interesting scanning projects. This case study from the ABBYY Newsletter is no exception. It seems that some monks at the St. Gregory Palamas Monastery had a problem: “We have a number of printed documents in polytonic Greek that we needed to convert into […]
Continue readingAs I mentioned in my Lucion FileCenter review, FileCenter is a great document management program for Windows. One question I get quite a bit is “does FileCenter work with the Fujitsu ScanSnap?” The answer is yes, yes it does. In this post I’ll show you two ways that you can scan to FileCenter using your […]
Continue readingFile syncing services such as Dropbox or SugarSync are amazing. You create or edit a file on one computer, and behind the scenes the changes are reflected on your other computers. If you are a QuickBooks user, it may be tempting to use one of these file syncing services. After all, wouldn’t it be great […]
Continue readingThis post is going to be a bit different than my usual fare, which often focuses on the more technical aspects of going paperless. I’ve been writing DocumentSnap since the summer of 2008, and have had the opportunity to communicate with a large and fantastic group of readers. Many have gone paperless and want to […]
Continue readingI don’t know about you, but when I look at a table I always think that it is missing two things: a screen, and a scanner. After all, I’m the one that is always saying that if you have trouble finding time to scan your documents, you should combine it with other activities. Fortunately, the […]
Continue readingContracts can be annoying things, especially for those of us that try to go paperless and/or do most of our work online. For starters, a surprising number of transactions happen with no written evidence. Whether it is because people don’t know what to put in them, they are challenging to dig up online, or they […]
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