Reader Story: Jump Starting The Paperless Transition (Part 1)

The other day I woke up to a pretty great email from awesome DocumentSnap reader Mike in California. Here’s what he said: Just wanted to let you know that I took two moving boxes (roughly 40–50 pounds) of paper to the local shredding center on Monday. Thank you very much for the wonderful information on […]

Outlook Mac To Evernote Script

This blog post is nominally about a script to send Outlook 2011 for Mac emails to Evernote. In reality, it is a love letter to Justin Lancy aka Veritrope. Whenever I need to create an AppleScript, there is a familiar pattern: Start writing the script. Hit a roadblock. Find that Justin has already created a […]

Fujitsu ScanSnap On Windows 10 – Your Experience?

If you’re a Windows user, you can’t have missed the fact that Windows 10 is now out. How does the ScanSnap work with it? Whenever a new version of an operating system is released, I put up a post to collect experiences and resources for the ScanSnap. If you’ve made the Windows 10 upgrade, please […]

Backup ScanSnap Profiles Or Move To A New Computer – Mac

Many users very happily use the ScanSnap Quick Menu to do their scanning. It is certainly an easy way to scan. However, if you want to be more efficient with your scanning, you may want to look into setting up ScanSnap Profiles. A Profile is a pre-defined group of ScanSnap settings.[1]. Once you set them […]

Backup ScanSnap Profiles Or Move To A New Computer – Windows

A great feature of the ScanSnap Windows scanner software is the ability to create Profiles, or pre-defined groups of scanner settings. They allow you to process your documents quickly and efficiently.[1] Once you get your ScanSnap Manager Profiles set up just the way you want them, how do you back them up? If you get […]

Evernote Rename Attachment on Mac and Windows

When scanning documents to Evernote, some people just rename the title of the note and don’t worry about the name of the actual PDF attachment. Others want to have the PDF named as well. If you want your Evernote attachment to have the correct name, you have two options: Name the PDF correctly first and […]

How To Split PDF Documents Into Single Pages Using Mac OS X

You have a multi-page PDF that you’d like to split into individual pages. Maybe you scanned a stack of paper intending to make it one PDF per sheet, but instead it went into one big PDF. Maybe you have some other reason. You can buy software to do this, but there are options to split […]

Make OneDrive Folder Online Only (Or Offline)

If you use Windows 8.1 or later, OneDrive (Microsoft’s cloud storage solution) is integrated right into the operating system. If you look at File Explorer, you’ll see a OneDrive section right there in the sidebar. If you use OneDrive, you might have two different scenarios: You want your files available offline, so that if you […]

Dropbox File Requests – Request A File From Anyone

Cloud services like Dropbox are great for sharing documents, but what happens when you want someone to send you a file? I’ve long wished there was an easy way to request a file from someone, especially if the file is too large to email. There have been third-party services that have done this for quite […]

Change Mac Default To Search The Current Folder

There are different ways to search for files on the Mac. Usually I am searching my entire computer for a document, and for that I use Spotlight[1]. Occasionally I am in a Finder window and want to filter the displayed files, and for that I use the Search box in the top-right corner of the […]