You might be familiar with Shoeboxed, a service that lets you mail in your receipts and business cards for them to scan and organize for you. I recently reviewed the service. As with my usual luck, just after my review the company released a new iPhone app that is pretty cool: the Shoeboxed Business Card […]
Continue readingAs many regular DocumentSnap readers know, I love me some Dropbox. It has weaved its way into almost every part of my daily computer use, and I shudder to think what things were like before it existed. In case you don’t know what Dropbox is, it is a web service/web app/desktop app/mobile app that syncs […]
Continue readingThis is Part 2 of a 2 part series about SmartVault. Part 1 outlined how to use SmartVault for online document storage, so you may want to read it first. In Part 1, we talked about using SmartVault to upload and manage documents, and how to map a drive so that you can access your […]
Continue readingThis is Part 1 of a 2 part series about SmartVault. Part 2 outlines how to use SmartVault with Quickbooks and the Fujitsu ScanSnap. I get a fair amount of emails that look something like this: “Hey Brooks, I’m interested in going paperless and I use Quickbooks. Any ideas how I can attach scanned invoices […]
Continue readingI am always in awe of is the number of different platforms that Evernote supports. Having worked in software in the past, I can only imagine the product management headache that must cause. Because of all their platforms, sometimes different versions start getting a bit long in the tooth and that was definitely the case […]
Continue readingFile this one under both “oldie but a goodie” and “insanely useful”. Update 01/03/2014:David Sparks has an updated screencast that shows the best way to do this in modern Mac OS X. As you probably know, Mac OSX has “Save As PDF” built into the operating system, so you can print to a PDF from […]
Continue readingI’ve mentioned Shoeboxed quite a few times here on DocumentSnap as a good way to handle receipts and business cards if you don’t have the time or the equipment to do the scanning yourself. Basically how it works is you take your receipts, business cards, and other documents and put them into a pre-paid (usually- […]
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Is your data secure in Evernote? Evernote has a very detailed security page, and among other things they talk about how they encrypt your data in transit (when uploading and downloading) and they talk about how you can encrypt text within a note. There is one notable exception: they don’t talk about encrypting the files […]
Continue readingSometimes rather than creating new PDF files every time, you want to scan to an existing document. Over on the ScanSnap Community, they’ve posted a helpful video showing how to use Adobe Acrobat (which comes with the ScanSnap S1500) to scan to Acrobat and then add the pages to an existing document. The video is […]
Continue readingOnline backup vendor Carbonite has recently rolled out an update to their client software, Carbonite 4.0. Sadly, the Carbonite 4.0 update is for Windows only, but the company has stated that the Mac version is in the works. If you’re an existing Carbonite customer, they’re in the process of rolling out the update. If you’re […]
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