Given the number of articles that I have written about Noodlesoft’s Hazel, it is no secret that I’m a big fan. The other day, recent DocumentSnap reader Andreas Zeitler tipped me off to a one hour (!) long Hazel video tutorial he has made. Hazel by Noodlesoft has attracted many users over the years. Those […]
Continue readingSo, you have documents or other files that you want to synchronize between multiple computers, but you don’t want those files to be stored on a cloud service. How do you do it? There are many ways to do this of course, but one popular way is a piece of software called GoodSync that is […]
Continue readingBox is a service that for some reason I have only written about once on the site, back in 2011. Even though I haven’t been writing about it, I have noticed an interesting trend. Whenever I talk to professionals or small businesses that are extra security conscious about their use of the cloud, they have […]
Continue readingHandwritten forms are the bane of a paperless project. Sure you can scan them, but in most cases OCR does not work on handwritten text[1], and being able to extract and do something with the information on the form has been difficult if not impossible. At least, this is what I thought until the service […]
Continue readingAs usual, my timing is perfect. Four days after posting Three Things About David Sparks, the guy goes and releases a brand new book in his MacSparky Field Guides series: 60 Mountain Lion Tips. Unlike his last book Paperless, this one is a collaboration with Internet Mad Scientist Brett Terpstra. It doesn’t seem possible that […]
Continue readingFor years now, I have been resisting writing about faxing. Perhaps resisting is the wrong word. Back when my wife and I bought our first house in 2003, there was a mountain of paper to sign and fax. Since we didn’t have a fax machine, I used a popular electronic faxing service at the time. […]
Continue readingI talk a little too much about Hazel here at DocumentSnap, but there is one small issue for a big chunk of you: it is Mac only. Enter Belvedere, a self-admitted Hazel clone for Windows. It is not nearly as fully featured as Hazel, but it is free and will do the basics like move […]
Continue readingIf you are going to be storing your documents on a cloud service, you want to make sure that they are as secure as possible. After a bit of a security breach where some e-mail addresses were exposed, Dropbox announced that they were implementing two-factor authentication, and it is now here for everyone. If you […]
Continue readingPaperless is one of those annoying words that means different things to different people. Does it mean having absolutely no paper around? Does it mean just using less paper? Does it mean keeping no paper? At the Evernote Trunk Conference, the company’s CEO Phil Libin said Evernote’s main competitor is not another software product, but […]
Continue readingI’ve just returned from San Francisco where I attended the second Evernote Trunk Conference. As I wrote at the time, last year’s event was nominally a developer conference that had morphed into a user conference. This year, the company embraced these two groups and had user and developer tracks. Great move. The stated theme of […]
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