This is Day 1 in a 12 Post series: 12 Days Of Paperless Gifts. If you know someone who could use some help going paperless, or if you deserve to treat yourself, this is the place. If you don’t, feel free to ignore this series. Normal DocumentSnap posts will still be coming! If you know […]
Continue readingPortable scanners are great, but with very few exceptions they have one general issue: while the scanner may be portable, it still needs to be plugged into a computer to work. Today, the folks over at Doxie have announced their proposed solution to this: the Doxie Go, which will scan documents or photos without needing […]
Continue readingUsually I am not a fan of devices that try to do too much. For example, multifunction printers/scanners/copiers are rarely as good as their standalone counterparts. Update 03/26/2015: Since originally posting this, the mouse scanner is now available and gets pretty good reviews! It was with some skepticism that I clicked the link that awesome […]
Continue readingThree years ago, my wife and I moved into our new house ((A move that led to the creation of DocumentSnap, actually.)). In the last few weeks we finally started dealing with all the boxes in our garage, and one of them is a big, heavy box of my old college notebooks. It made me […]
Continue readingI have posted about how the Fujitsu ScanSnap is ready for Lion, but what about some of the other popular scanners for going paperless? What is their status on Mac OS X Lion? Let’s find out. NeatDesk It looks like NeatDesk for Mac has been updated for Lion. You need to make sure you have […]
Continue readingThis 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 […]
Continue readingBased on emails I am getting and searches that I can see in the DocumentSnap logs, this question is gaining a bit of steam: “For portable scanners, what is the difference between the Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300 and the ScanSnap S1100?”, and then of course: “Which should I buy?”. Since one of the most popular posts […]
Continue readingThere’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 […]
Continue readingSome time ago, I posted an article about how to use NeatWorks for Mac with the Fujitsu ScanSnap. In case you don’t know, NeatWorks is the software that comes with the NeatDesk and NeatReceipts scanner. Neatco sells the Mac version separately (though not the Windows version for some strange reason). At the time, I was […]
Continue readingBack in January, DocumentSnap reader Jos van de Voort van de Kleij wrote in with a question: How could he use his ScanSnap S1300 to scan directly to his OmniFocus inbox? Now, despite the writing and podcasting of David Sparks, Ben Brooks, and Merlin Mann, I have not yet taken the plunge and started using […]
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