The Evernote iPhone app recently added the ability to scan business cards and create a note with the information from the card. Did you know that you can have the information automatically added to your phone’s contacts? The option is a little buried, so this video shows how to set it up. View the video […]
Continue readingLong time DocumentSnap readers will know that I am a big GoodReader user. It has been the file system for my iPad for years, and the new iOS 7 update is quite nice. However, recently I have moved to PDF Expert 5 as my PDF application of choice on the iPad. Readdle’s apps are getting […]
Continue readingThe iOS app GoodReader is great for working with all sorts of files on the iPad and iPhone. You can create a startup password, but you can also create an extra password to protect extra-sensitive files and folders. This video shows how to set that up. View the video below, or click here to watch […]
Continue readingSo you are on your iPhone, iPad, or (I think?) Android device, and you want to save the web page or e-mail to PDF. If you are using Google apps like the Google Chrome browser for iOS, or the Gmail app for iOS, Google makes this easy using their Google Cloud Print and Google Drive […]
Continue readingThere are many, many ways to extract a page out of a PDF and create a new document from it. The other day I was speaking at a conference, and an awesome DocumentSnap reader asked me a question. I think I surprised her when I pulled a page out of one of my existing documents […]
Continue readingThere are lots of quick ways to capture notes to Evernote when you are on the go, but the problem is they are usually unstructured. You can capture the notes quickly, but then later you need to name and possibly tag them. I was recently contacted by the folks at Cloudmanic about their new tool […]
Continue readingGoodReader is a great application for managing and working with PDFs (and many other types of files) on the iPad. It tends to be what I use. A while ago, I did a little video showing how it works. At Macworld this year, I had the great fortune to meet up with awesome DocumentSnap reader […]
Continue readingI think we can all agree that faxing is a disaster. It’s one of those activities that no one wants to do, but we all have to do it once in a while. I was contacted by the fine folks at Grizzly Labs, makers one one of my favorite scanning apps Genius Scan, and they […]
Continue readingI just returned from a trip, so I thought it would be a good time to record a short video showing how I capture receipts while on the road. I try to capture the receipts as soon as possible – sometimes even right there at the table. Then I let my app of choice organize […]
Continue readingWhen I want to review and annotate, or mark up, a PDF, I do it almost exclusively on my iPad. For me, it is a nice all-digital workflow that avoids the print-out-and-write dance. I can then save or share the annotated PDF right from my iPad. There are many apps that can do this, such […]
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