If you are a Google Drive user and use Google Sheets for spreadsheets, you will inevitably have a situation where someone sends to an Excel file. In some cases you will want to just keep it as an XLS document and view/work with it that way. In other cases, you may want to convert Excel […]
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If you use the iOS Evernote Web Clipper on your iPad or iPhone, you’ll be happy about a recent update – it now lets you add a tag when you are clipping. (Cue Android users laughing because they’ve been able to do this for a long time.) Hit The Share Button To Open The Evernote […]
Continue readingDo you need to rename files on your Mac? If you have a bunch of files to rename, it can be a pain to do them one-by-one. Lucky for you, there’s a hidden feature of the Finder that lets you batch rename files – all built in to OS X. There are tools you can […]
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Are you a Gmail user? Do you keep everything in Gmail, or do you like to save at least some of your email elsewhere? If you like to capture emails to Evernote, you may not realize that the Evernote Web Clipper has a great Gmail clipper built in. Here’s how the Evernote Web Clipper Gmail […]
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I often say that the holy grail of going paperless is the ability to scan a document and have your computer automatically rename and move it away. Even better if you can automatically process a bunch of PDFs at once. On the Mac, the gold standard is a tool called Hazel, which I have written […]
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This is Day 11 in a 12 Post series: 12 Days Of Paperless Gifts. If you know someone who could use some help going paperless, or if you’d like to drop some hints, this series is for you. Don’t worry, the regular DocumentSnap tips will still be flowing. At a high level, going paperless isn’t […]
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This is Day 8 in a 12 Post series: 12 Days Of Paperless Gifts. If you know someone who could use some help going paperless, or if you’d like to drop some hints, this series is for you. Don’t worry, the regular DocumentSnap tips will still be flowing. If your special someone (or if you […]
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Are you a Windows user and do you find renaming your scanned documents a pain? The Windows document management software I tend to recommend more than any other is FileCenter by Lucion. They’re released Version 9, and among other things the Pro version includes the ability to rename documents based on the text inside the […]
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Remember the good old days? The days when, if you wanted to encrypt files on Windows, the answer was easy. Just install TrueCrypt and you’d be good to go. Then TrueCrypt crashed and burned in epic fashion and everyone was scrambling to figure out TrueCrypt alternatives. The easiest and most common alternative, and the one […]
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Many scanners let you choose between scanning one-PDF-per-page or scanning all the pages into one big PDF. The scanner I use does. However, what happens when you have multiple PDFs that really should go in one document? How do you combine PDFs together? There are a million ways to do this, including some I have […]
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