It is amazing how much we can get done with PDFs on the iPad. The latest generation of PDF apps really are great. That is why, when I saw this tweet from Eddie Smith over at Practically Efficient, I knew there must be a way.[1] Anyone know of an iPad app/trick to pull a single […]
Continue readingWhen you are starting to go paperless, one of the best things that you can do is eliminate the paper coming into your life in the first place. A tweet from Twitter user @chicken_scratch pointed me to this smartphone app PaperKarma. Apparently you can use it to take a picture of a piece of mail, […]
Continue readingSometimes people are hesitant to use Evernote because they don’t like the idea of some of their more sensitive documents being stored in the cloud. Fair enough. One answer is to use the Local Notebook feature of Evernote. It keeps your documents on your computer only. This video shows how that works across three different […]
Continue readingI usually recommend that people start with a high level folder structure, and then add subfolders as needed. In Mac OS X Lion, there is a new feature that makes this quick and easy: New Folder From Selection. By the way, to make up for last week’s 12 minute GoodReader demo, this week’s is only […]
Continue readingWhen I wrote my recent Canon P–215 review, I mostly focussed on the hardware and the scanning. I wasn’t able to spend too much time on the CaptureOnTouch software that is included with the scanner, so I’m going to rectify that now. By the way, while my review was for the P–215, I believe this […]
Continue readingFollowing up on the genealogy theme we had recently, I came across a presentation by the folks at Fiddler Studios about using Evernote for genealogists. When you think about it, Evernote is a great tool for this. As they say on FamilySearch: Most family history enthusiasts can be found in their basement, in lighting similar […]
Continue readingThere are two questions that I get asked quite a bit: How can I tell if a PDF has been OCRed and made searchable? How can I extract text from a PDF? There are lots of software products that can do this sort of thing, but the way that I usually do both of these […]
Continue readingThis video on disabling Windows Snap is part of a series of quick videos on paperless tips and topics. View more in the series here. There is a feature of Windows 7 that people either love or hate: Snap. When you drag a window to the side or the top, Windows 7 will automatically resize […]
Continue readingI hear from a lot of readers that while they like the idea of having files synchronized across multiple computers and devices, they definitely do not like the idea of having their files stored unencrypted online. Usually in those cases I recommend a service called Wuala, but I have not had a chance to play […]
Continue readingThis video about splitting a PDF with Preview is part of a series of quick videos on paperless tips and topics. View more in the series here. If you have a Mac, you may not realize that you already have a way to extract pages from a PDF and split it up. The Preview application […]
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