This blog post is nominally about a script to send Outlook 2011 for Mac emails to Evernote. In reality, it is a love letter to Justin Lancy aka Veritrope. Whenever I need to create an AppleScript, there is a familiar pattern: Start writing the script. Hit a roadblock. Find that Justin has already created a […]
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When scanning documents to Evernote, some people just rename the title of the note and don’t worry about the name of the actual PDF attachment. Others want to have the PDF named as well. If you want your Evernote attachment to have the correct name, you have two options: Name the PDF correctly first and […]
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You have a multi-page PDF that you’d like to split into individual pages. Maybe you scanned a stack of paper intending to make it one PDF per sheet, but instead it went into one big PDF. Maybe you have some other reason. You can buy software to do this, but there are options to split […]
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If you use Windows 8.1 or later, OneDrive (Microsoft’s cloud storage solution) is integrated right into the operating system. If you look at File Explorer, you’ll see a OneDrive section right there in the sidebar. If you use OneDrive, you might have two different scenarios: You want your files available offline, so that if you […]
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Cloud services like Dropbox are great for sharing documents, but what happens when you want someone to send you a file? I’ve long wished there was an easy way to request a file from someone, especially if the file is too large to email. There have been third-party services that have done this for quite […]
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When I need to do something with a PDF on Windows, more often than not I use Nitro Pro. It has the power of something like Adobe Acrobat, but is nicer to use. It doesn’t hurt that it’s much less expensive as well. They just released Nitro Pro 10, and I downloaded a review copy […]
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I recently bought a new Mac, and instead of migrating my files and settings I decided to start fresh and install things as I needed them.[1] Let me tell you, that 10 minutes without TextExpander was painful. TextExpander is one of my absolute favorite applications. In fact, friend-of-DocumentSnap Deron Bos captured my thoughts from a […]
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Do you keep your electronic documents forever? Or do you delete them when they’re no longer needed? Awesome DocumentSnap reader Bill from Minneapolis asked me this interesting question, and I couldn’t resist digging into it: [How do you] clean out your paperless files when the information is no longer needed? I have been using TextExpander […]
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When Evernote first released Scannable, their standalone scanning app for iOS, I have to admit I didn’t get it. After all, their iOS (and Android for that matter) apps do a good job of scanning documents and business cards. Why create a totally separate app? I still don’t know the answer to that question, but […]
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One of my oldest son’s many soccer practices lasts for two hours, and the field is surrounded by a track. During his training, I’ve started walking around the track so that I can pretend I’m doing something athletic while everyone around me is playing soccer or doing sprints. This is a perfect time to get […]
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