The good and the bad thing about tagging documents on the Mac is that there are a bunch of different ways to do it. If you want to get into tagging, I always recommend that you use software that uses the OpenMeta standard. That way, different applications can all access the same tags. A free […]
Continue readingSometimes it can be handy to get a big list of PDFs on your Mac, either as a last resort when hunting down an elusive document, or as a starter point for further filtering. View the video below, or click here to watch it on YouTube. If you are able to, I recommend that you […]
Continue readingSometimes people are hesitant to use Evernote because they don’t like the idea of some of their more sensitive documents being stored in the cloud. Fair enough. One answer is to use the Local Notebook feature of Evernote. It keeps your documents on your computer only. This video shows how that works across three different […]
Continue readingI usually recommend that people start with a high level folder structure, and then add subfolders as needed. In Mac OS X Lion, there is a new feature that makes this quick and easy: New Folder From Selection. By the way, to make up for last week’s 12 minute GoodReader demo, this week’s is only […]
Continue readingI was recently asked what I use to view/manage/work with PDFs on the iPad. At the moment, I use GoodReader. It comes in an iPad and an iPhone version. GoodReader is way more than a PDF application. I tend to think of it as a file system for iOS, with connections to all sorts of […]
Continue readingThere are two questions that I get asked quite a bit: How can I tell if a PDF has been OCRed and made searchable? How can I extract text from a PDF? There are lots of software products that can do this sort of thing, but the way that I usually do both of these […]
Continue readingThis video on disabling Windows Snap is part of a series of quick videos on paperless tips and topics. View more in the series here. There is a feature of Windows 7 that people either love or hate: Snap. When you drag a window to the side or the top, Windows 7 will automatically resize […]
Continue readingThis video about splitting a PDF with Preview is part of a series of quick videos on paperless tips and topics. View more in the series here. If you have a Mac, you may not realize that you already have a way to extract pages from a PDF and split it up. The Preview application […]
Continue readingThis video on ScanSnap Organizer Keyword Distribution is part of a series of quick videos on paperless tips and topics. View more in the series here. The ScanSnap Organizer software that comes with all Windows Fujitsu ScanSnap scanners has an interesting feature that I’ll bet not many people have noticed: you can use keywords in […]
Continue readingThis video on using a highlighter with a Fujitsu ScanSnap to extract keywords is part of a series of quick videos on paperless tips and topics. View more in the series here. The ScanSnap has a cool but (in my opinion) underused feature where you can use a highlighter on some text on a piece […]
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