Evernote does a (relatively) good job creating a service and creating software, but I have always felt that the company could do a better job helping people put things into Evernote. For example, did you know there is an Evernote templates feature? OK, before you call me on it, that’s not entirely accurate. There is […]
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I’m going to be honest. I don’t worry too much about PDF file size. Storage (both local and online) is relatively cheap. However, sometimes people will ask me how to reduce PDF file size, so it’s clearly a topic of interest. There are many solutions out there, but over on the Asian Efficiency Dojo, user […]
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Update 1/23/2017: The Sierra 10.12.3 Update seems to have fixed the issue. If you haven’t already, it’s highly suggested that you update. If you have updated to macOS Sierra 10.12.2 and use Preview to manipulate scanned PDFs, watch out. There seems to be a bug and the OCR text layer can disappear. I’ve replicated this […]
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I have nothing against Dropbox, but when I am using Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, etc.) I find it annoying to have the Dropbox icon floating there on the right of my window. It’s called the Dropbox badge, and I am sure it is useful for some people but not for me. Here’s how to disable […]
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Let’s say for whatever reason ( ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ) you want to store your data in the cloud, but you don’t want it stored in the United States. More specifically you want to (or need to!) store it in Canada. There are Canadian cloud services that will let you do that. Canadian Cloud Sync Service If […]
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It’s no secret that Hazel by Noodlesoft is one of my favorite applications for keeping my paperless documents organized on the Mac. Today I felt the need to talk about an insanely useful feature introduced in version 4: the Hazel Preview Button. (Windows users, a Hazel-y tool for you is called DropIt, though that doesn’t […]
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One of the more popular posts on DocumentSnap (especially in light of recent price increases) is How To Export Your Data Out Of Evernote. Evernote gives you built-in ways to export to HTML or XML, but your organization structure isn’t preserved and the result is not nicely formatted. I always hoped that someone would write […]
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I came across this neat trick on Twitter to link pages in OneNote, and decided to share it here. If you’re typing in a note, you can type [[, then the title of a Page, then ]]. When you do that, it’ll automatically turn that text into a link to the other page. I tried […]
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Earlier this year, Steve Dotto, Mike Vardy and I did a webinar about text expansion tools. During the webinar, the creator of the Windows application ActiveWords (available here) told us that his solution is better than anything we were showing, so I decided to take a look and see what’s going on. I downloaded the […]
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When I sat down to write this article, I was determined to come up with a way to scan to OneNote for Mac in some sort of automated fashion. Whether with the ScanSnap or with some other scanner, I figured there must be a way to do it. I wish I could say I was […]
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