A question I get asked quite a bit is “how will I know that these scanned documents will still be readable in the future?” It is a legitimate question – I’m sure many of you have a box of 3.5" floppy disks with WordPerfect files on them somewhere. There are some files where we don’t […]
Continue readingNormally, I try not to write about services that I have not personally used. Before writing about something on DocumentSnap, I try to put it through its paces and do a walkthrough of the functionality. However, sometimes there is a service where even though I can’t actually try it, word of mouth makes it impossible […]
Continue readingIf you are using Evernote to go paperless, you will want to know how to get your documents out when you need them. The latest version of the Mac client has an awesome new feature: the ability to save attachments to a folder. You can do this for an individual note, a group of notes, […]
Continue readingYou almost certainly have heard that Google has finally released their long-rumored file storage service, Google Drive. The service does a lot of Dropbox-y things, but I thought I would focus on one of the advertised features that is relevant to going paperless: the ability to OCR uploaded documents. Note that this is not a […]
Continue readingDid you know that you can automate Evernote for Windows via the Command Prompt? Neither did I until recently. It turns out that Mac users with their fancy AppleScripts don’t get to have all the fun. Check out the Windows command line page on the Evernote Developers mini-site. You can see that there are two […]
Continue readingA question I get asked all the time is “what is the best way to organize Evernote?” If you’ve been reading my stuff for any length of time, you’ll know that there is no such thing as a “best way”, but it can be helpful to see how others do it. I came across this […]
Continue readingWhen you receive a PDF attachment via email, or view a PDF on the web, what do you do with it? This video shows how you can open and work with almost any type of file with any supporting app on the iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch. View the video below, or click here to […]
Continue readingLast year, in the Evernote LinkedIn group, I noticed that there was a very enthusiastic and helpful contributor. Whenever someone had a question, he would jump in and share his experience or provide suggestions. His name is Daniel Gold, and when I found out that he was releasing an eBook last fall, I dropped the […]
Continue readingThe good and the bad thing about tagging documents on the Mac is that there are a bunch of different ways to do it. If you want to get into tagging, I always recommend that you use software that uses the OpenMeta standard. That way, different applications can all access the same tags. A free […]
Continue readingFor whatever reason, I have not written about Nuance PaperPort before. I will have to rectify that, but in the meantime I will answer a question that I receive quite a bit: “How do I use the Fujitsu ScanSnap to scan to PaperPort?” There are a number of ways to do this, but I will […]
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