When I was at Macworld|iWorld this year, I wandered the exhibit floor to see what paperless-y things were going on. I came across the booth for NewSoft, where they were showing their product Presto! MageManager 9 SE, the Mac version of their document management software. I asked them for a demo, and was pretty impressed. […]
Continue readingOn the weekend, I returned from Macworld|iWorld. Usually when I go on these sorts of trips, two things happen afterwards: I end up with a stack of receipts that sit around until I get around to/am forced to scan, organize, and categorize them I end up with a stack of business cards that I get […]
Continue readingBeginning with the ScanSnap S1100 and later with a software update for other ScanSnap models, Fujitsu has provided Evernote integration built into ScanSnap Manager. This works well, but perceptive ScanSnappers may have noticed something strange: there are two different settings for enabling searchable PDFs (aka Optical Character Recognition, or OCR). Why on earth would they […]
Continue readingThis video on redacting sensitive text with PDFPen is part of a series of quick videos on paperless tips and topics. View more in the series here. In the spirit of full disclosure, the subject for this video was ripped off from an ad that Katie Floyd did on the Mac Power Users podcast. If […]
Continue readingI have written about ways to electronically put your signature on a PDF quite a few times (for example, using PDFPen or in Preview), but they have all been on the Mac. Today it is Windows’ turn.[1] The latest version of Adobe Reader X has added the ability to drop your signature into a PDF. […]
Continue readingYou can use the little-used Send To menu in Windows to speed up copying to frequently-used folders.
Continue readingThis video on file synchronization is part of a series of quick videos on paperless tips and topics. View more in the series here. You’ve probably heard of sync software like Dropbox or SugarSync, but might not be sure how they work or what exactly they can do for you. Hopefully, this video will help. […]
Continue readingThis video on Evernote keyboard shortcuts is part of a series of quick videos on paperless tips and topics. View more in the series here. If you use [Evernote][evernote], you owe it to yourself to learn these keyboard shortcuts. They’ll make things go much, much faster. I especially love the search one. View the video […]
Continue readingHow do use Windows Acrobat to create a PDF email archive from Outlook.
Continue readingThis video on inserting your signature with PDFPen is part of a series of quick videos on paperless tips and topics. View more in the series here. There are a bunch of ways to add your signature to a document without printing it, but my favorite is using PDFPen by Smile Software. This video shows […]
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