As far as I am aware, I am not a mom. I’m certainly not a super mom. I can say with reasonable confidence that my wife has me beat in all super mom aspects (sometimes she whips up a batch of muffins in the morning before heading off to her corporate senior management job – […]
Continue readingWhen you go paperless, over time you will accumulate a lot of information. This may lead you to ask yourself an important question – how long should you keep your electronic documents? Should you prune them periodically, or should you keep them forever? I need to be open and transparent right off the bat here […]
Continue readingBrowser tabs, amiright? For those of us old and/or geeky enough to remember when tabbed browsing first became available, it was a godsend. No more stacks of never-ending browser windows all over the place. Of course, we still have the same underlying problem. We still have too much stuff open in our browsers; it has […]
Continue readingI have attended the annual conference for the National Association of Professional Organizers for the past two years, and both times I eyed the booth for a product called the Ampad Shot Note. The Shot Note pads are billed as an easy way to digitize handwriting and sketches, and this year they were handing out […]
Continue readingThe more I work with electronic documents, the more I become convinced that a consistent, descriptive naming convention is the biggest thing you can do to be able to find your documents later. Having searchable PDFs is great, but using a naming convention will help to make sure that your documents are findable, not just […]
Continue readingPeople often ask me if I recommend downloading paperless statements and bills, or if it is okay to leave them on the bank or other vendor’s website. My answer to this is always the same: do whatever works for you, but I always recommend downloading your electronic documents. Why is this? You Need To Control […]
Continue readingAt the end of 2013, I did a post about an interesting looking Kickstarter project. The product I funded (I have a Kickstarter weakness) is called the Wipebook, and I have been using it for the past month. If you want to skip the rest of this post, I will save you time and just […]
Continue readingOn the DocumentSnap Facebook Page, awesome reader Corey Adams shared this great video from the US National Archives. The video is titled “Let’s Get Organized! Setting up your Electronic Files”, and is by Donna Read from the National Archives. The presentation is a little geared towards agencies and larger organizations, but it still has solid […]
Continue readingA surprising number of awesome DocumentSnap readers write me and ask for photo scanning and organizing advice. A look at my iPhoto library will tell you that I am absolutely not the person to ask about this subject, but as luck would have it I went to the annual conference of the National Association of […]
Continue readingThere’s an interesting-looking new conference coming up that I thought I’d share, since I know a lot of DocumentSnap readers are into simplification and minimalism. It’s called SimpleRev and it is taking place October 3–4, 2014 in Minneapolis, MN. According to the site, here is what will go on: There will be intimate workshops, inspiring […]
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