As much of a paperless geek that I am, I normally wouldn’t sit and watch a video of someone scanning and shredding paper. However, I just wanted to point you to this YouTube video by user allenday. He’s got a really cool setup of a ScanSnap S300M, Adobe Acrobat, a Mac Mini, a wall-mounted Sharp […]
Continue readingSo you read all this great stuff about how the Fujitsu ScanSnap is awesome and creates searchable PDFs, and you’re on a Mac and want a portable scanner, so you drop the cash on a ScanSnap S300M. Then you get it home and find out – wait a minute – the S300M doesn’t come with […]
Continue readingOne common comment about Evernote is that the service is awesome, but people wish that it supported encryption of notes or notebooks. To address this, Evernote introduced the ability to encrypt text inside a note, but for those that want something a bit more comprehensive, here is a 2 part guide on how to encrypt […]
Continue readingLike many of you I am sure, I use Google Reader to read my RSS feeds. Sometimes when I come across articles that I want to save into my Evernote account, I’d click on the article to open it in a tab, then hit the Evernote clipper button, and so on. No more. Evernote has […]
Continue readingWell, that didn’t take long. Just 13 days after my post about making PDFs searchable before uploading to Evernote, they went ahead and added that feature for Premium users yesterday. Starting now, if you are a premium user and you upload a PDF, Evernote will OCR it on the backend and make it searchable. If […]
Continue readingYes, I do realize that this is the second ScanSnap Evernote post in a row. I just realized that I had somehow not blogged about this contest that Evernote is having in July where they are giving away 4 Fujitsu ScanSnap S300 scanners. Here is how to enter from their blog post: * Follow […]
Continue readingUpdate: Of course, a few days after I posted this, Evernote announced that they would make PDFs searchable for Premium users. So if you are not a Premium user, this will help. Otherwise, just upload away. One of the most popular posts on this site is on how to use the Fujitsu ScanSnap with Evernote. […]
Continue readingPhoto by iwantanimac In case you haven’t figured it out yet, I am generally a Mac user. I do have access to borrow a Windows ScanSnap, but my personal ScanSnap is a S300M. One thing I get asked quite a bit is which software should someone use to manage their PDFs? The ScanSnap comes with […]
Continue readingMike Elgan over at Computerworld has written a pretty good article about taking the paperless concept out of the office and into his every day life. It’s a good overview of how he does it and the tools that he uses. There are some DocumentSnap favorites in there. As a kind of “lifestyle experiment,” I’ve […]
Continue readingRecently I’ve been asked quite a bit how to use Evernote with the Fujitsu ScanSnap. It’s a great combination and quite easy. Here’s a video that runs you through the processs. The video shows the Mac version, but Windows will be the same concept. In a nutshell, here is what you do. In this example […]
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