When I want to review and annotate, or mark up, a PDF, I do it almost exclusively on my iPad. For me, it is a nice all-digital workflow that avoids the print-out-and-write dance. I can then save or share the annotated PDF right from my iPad. There are many apps that can do this, such […]
Continue readingEvernote allows you to share notes with either a specific person or create a public link for everyone to use. It is not a bad idea to periodically go through and review which notes you have shared so that you can decide whether they should still be public or not. To do this, you can […]
Continue readingFujitsu has just released the ScanSnap iX500. There are many new features, most of which I get into in my iX500 review, but one of them is the ability for Mac users to perform OCR in the background. This is great because now you can scan and then let OCR do its thing creating searchable […]
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So you know how you always hear that the Fujitsu ScanSnap doesn’t support TWAIN?[1] That is true, but recently the company slipped in a new feature that I don’t think gets quite enough visibility: the ability to scan and attach a document from anywhere on Windows using what they call the ScanSnap Folder. It’s Windows […]
Continue readingI love TextExpander. I use it all day every day all over my Mac. However, I am also getting old and sometimes I know I have created a TextExpander snippet for a filename, Evernote note, or something else, but I just can’t remember what my abbreviation was. Luckily, TextExpander has a great search hotkey feature […]
Continue readingYou are oot and aboot as we say here in Canada, and you realize you need a file that is back on your computer. Oh no! Then you realize that you have everything backed up with an online backup service, and you have a smartphone. Oh yes! This video shows you how I use CrashPlan […]
Continue readingWhen you’re researching scanners, sometimes you will see that this or that scanner does or does not support something called TWAIN. Good to know, but what on earth does that actually mean? It turns out that TWAIN does not actually stand for anything (ah, computer geeks), but you don’t care about that anyways. All you […]
Continue readingOne of my favorite applications on my Mac is Alfred. I use it all day every day, and it is impossible for me to believe that I have only posted once about it in all of DocumentSnapdom. There is a lot (and I mean a lot) that it can do, but this video covers how […]
Continue readingThe Evernote apps for iOS just recently had a big redesign, and I have noticed one question that keeps coming up: where the heck did the Saved Searches go? This video takes you through how to find them on the iPad and iPhone. By the way, I like the new apps. They are much, much […]
Continue readingThere are many ways to copy files over from one location to another on Windows, but one nice free one is provided by Microsoft: SyncToy. You can use it to keep two directories synchronized, or in the video below, you can see how you can use it to back up your documents. View the video […]
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