A month ago, I posted about how to use Hazel to process downloaded PDF files. It was getting pretty technical, so I decided to end it before taking it one step further: how to use Hazel to apply OpenMeta tags to the files. Both in the comments and in my email, there have been a […]
Continue readingBack in November I posted a review of Joe Kissell’s excellent ebook Take Control Of Your Paperless Office. If you haven’t picked it up yet, starting today Joe is doing a pretty unique promotion: at noon EDT, he will be posting the entire book on Twitter. If you are at all familiar with Twitter, you […]
Continue readingIf you use NeatWorks by the Neat Company, you may be wondering where it actually stores your data. NeatWorks is a document organization software for Windows and Mac that comes bundled with the NeatDesk and NeatReceipts scanner, but on the Mac is also available for purchase standalone. Once you have scanned your documents in, it […]
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 Stacey Hurley. What problems were you trying to solve by going paperless? Years of papers […]
Continue readingThis is a guest post from Michelle Muto, author of the newly released book The Book of Lost Souls. I’ve slowly been going paperless for about two years. It was part of my new mantra, “Everything you must have owns you.” I cleaned out closets, rooms, cabinets. I saved the worst for last – the […]
Continue readingBased on emails I am getting and searches that I can see in the DocumentSnap logs, this question is gaining a bit of steam: “For portable scanners, what is the difference between the Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300 and the ScanSnap S1100?”, and then of course: “Which should I buy?”. Since one of the most popular posts […]
Continue readingThere’s a really interesting article over at the Chronicle of Higher Education about a project by Professor Alexander Halavais’. Books take up space. That’s a problem for any librarian tasked with finding room on overcrowded shelves. It’s also a problem for a book-loving scholar who lives in a small New York City apartment with a […]
Continue readingGreg Lam, the Small Business Doer, has a great video series called DIY Or Go Pro in which he interviews experts on different business-related topics. A few weeks ago, he decided to make an exception to the “experts” qualification and ended up at DocumentSnap World Headquarters (aka my living room) to interview me about going […]
Continue readingAs I have mentioned earlier, the question of “what do I do with my files once I have scanned them?” comes up quite a bit. If you use Windows, it can be hard to decide which paperless office software package to use (or if you even need one). In a strange role reversal, a client […]
Continue readingSome time ago, I posted an article about how to use NeatWorks for Mac with the Fujitsu ScanSnap. In case you don’t know, NeatWorks is the software that comes with the NeatDesk and NeatReceipts scanner. Neatco sells the Mac version separately (though not the Windows version for some strange reason). At the time, I was […]
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