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4 Author + ScanSnap + Hazel + TextExpander = Time To Write

This 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 […]

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11 Could You Chop And Scan Your Books?

There’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 […]

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7 Reader Story: Closing Deals With PDF Search

This post from 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 John Svirsky from Florida and New York. What problems were you trying to solve […]

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8 Early Preview Of Paperless Document Organizer

Update 4/12/2011: The Paperless Document Organization Guide is now live! Check it out. This is the first announcement about an all-new project I’ll be unveiling to the world in March. The project (unless I come up with a better name) is called the Paperless Document Organizer, and it will be laser-focused on the number one question […]

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1 Can You Read A Book In A Browser?

I am quite possibly the last person who should be writing about higher education, but I find the ProfHacker blog on The Chronicle of Higher Education really interesting. They write about productivity and technology from a different angle, which I like. It doesn’t hurt that most of the writers are professors, associate professors, or assistant […]

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2 Reader Story: Accessing Documents On The Go

This post from 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 Brandon Smith from Keizer, OR. You can find him on Twitter @brasmi. What problems […]

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27 My Paperless Office Workspace

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 […]

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