Since I have been posting about software quite a bit lately, I thought I’d back up and talk about something just as important: your physical environment. You want to strike a balance between having things clean and uncluttered, and having things close by when you need them. It’s a tough line: how can you have […]
Continue readingYou might be familiar with Shoeboxed, a service that lets you mail in your receipts and business cards for them to scan and organize for you. I recently reviewed the service. As with my usual luck, just after my review the company released a new iPhone app that is pretty cool: the Shoeboxed Business Card […]
Continue readingBack when I purchased my first ScanSnap, the precursor to the ScanSnap S1300, I came across this Macworld article by author Joe Kissell in which he outlined his paperless office. That article, and others like it, were a big inspiration when I started DocumentSnap. In fact, I used (many would say ripped off) the Applescript […]
Continue readingUpdate: The ScanSnap S1100 has been released in North America as of January 2011. You can see my Fujitsu ScanSnap S1100 Review here. Almost a year ago now, I noticed something on some Japanese gadget sites: a strange ScanSnap called the S1300. About a month or two later, it was announced in North America. Is […]
Continue readingAs many regular DocumentSnap readers know, I love me some Dropbox. It has weaved its way into almost every part of my daily computer use, and I shudder to think what things were like before it existed. In case you don’t know what Dropbox is, it is a web service/web app/desktop app/mobile app that syncs […]
Continue readingReaders of my Paper Cuts Newsletter will be familiar with DocumentSnap reader Meg Stout’s blog, 300 boxes. Meg is currently working her way through (as the name implies) 300 boxes worth of stuff and blogging the process. Recently she blogged about her triage process when it comes to dealing with piles of random stuff. As […]
Continue readingThis is Part 2 of a 2 part series about SmartVault. Part 1 outlined how to use SmartVault for online document storage, so you may want to read it first. In Part 1, we talked about using SmartVault to upload and manage documents, and how to map a drive so that you can access your […]
Continue readingThis is Part 1 of a 2 part series about SmartVault. Part 2 outlines how to use SmartVault with Quickbooks and the Fujitsu ScanSnap. I get a fair amount of emails that look something like this: “Hey Brooks, I’m interested in going paperless and I use Quickbooks. Any ideas how I can attach scanned invoices […]
Continue readingA few months ago I wrote about ScanDrop, a piece of software from the folks at OfficeDrop that lets you use your ScanSnap or TWAIN scanner to scan straight to cloud-based systems like Evernote, Google Docs, or (obviously), OfficeDrop. On the OfficeDrop blog, the company posted an analysis of the times that people on the […]
Continue readingI am always in awe of is the number of different platforms that Evernote supports. Having worked in software in the past, I can only imagine the product management headache that must cause. Because of all their platforms, sometimes different versions start getting a bit long in the tooth and that was definitely the case […]
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