A big part of my paperless workflow is a wonderful application called Hazel by Noodlesoft. Among many other things, I use it to automatically name and file away as many of my paperless documents as possible. This Thursday, November 29 I will be doing a webinar for my new friends in the Paperless Action Plan […]
Continue readingOne of my favorite applications on my Mac is Alfred. I use it all day every day, and it is impossible for me to believe that I have only posted once about it in all of DocumentSnapdom. There is a lot (and I mean a lot) that it can do, but this video covers how […]
Continue readingFor the past few years, the Productive Macs Bundle has been extremely popular with DocumentSnap readers. So much so that I have received e-mails over the past few days asking me to write about the latest bundle from a paperless perspective. As usual, your wishes are my command. If you’re not familiar with how bundles […]
Continue readingThe Evernote apps for iOS just recently had a big redesign, and I have noticed one question that keeps coming up: where the heck did the Saved Searches go? This video takes you through how to find them on the iPad and iPhone. By the way, I like the new apps. They are much, much […]
Continue readingIn the latest class of my Paperless Action Plan course (amazing group by the way), I had a number of questions about software to manage receipts and other documents on the Mac. The two big players are Mariner Paperless and NeatWorks. A few participants asked me to open the question up to the greater DocumentSnap […]
Continue readingRecently I was in Phoenix for a business event, and while at dinner with my friends Rebecca and Adam, I did something so unexpected and so shocking that they had to take a picture: Brooks Writing In A Notebook Yep, that is me writing something down in a paper notebook. For someone who gets introduced […]
Continue readingI know that Windows 8 has now shipped, but there are still many, many Windows 7 machines out there, and there is a widespread problem with one flavor of Windows 7 called 64-bit. As I learned, Windows 7 has trouble with PDF searching. That post has helped many people, but I recently came across some […]
Continue readingIf you want to share files with someone, but don’t want to send the file as an e-mail attachment for size or security reasons, there are many ways to do it. This video shows how to do it with Box securely. View the video below, or click here to watch it on YouTube. If you […]
Continue readingI have a thing for simple little apps that do one thing well, and I love it when readers tip me off to them. The other day I posted on Twitter this great article by David Sparks in which he goes through a surefire way to remember keyboard shortcuts. Geoff Airey (aka @Gtdgeoff) pointed me […]
Continue readingDoing keyword search in Evernote is extremely powerful. In fact, sometimes it is a little too powerful, and brings back way more than what you are looking for. A good way to find your notes quickly is to limit the search to just the title of the note, and ignore the rest of it. This […]
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