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Have Hazel Help With Your Document Destruction Policy

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 […]

0 Hazel Paperless Webinar Update

Back in November 2012, I held a webinar called Going Paperless With Hazel for members of my Paperless Action Plan online course, and anyone else who felt like attending. Since then, those who have wanted to check it out has been welcome to do so, and I’ve had a lot of great feedback from viewers. […]

6 GTD And Going Paperless – Filing Documents

This is a guest post from Alex Satrapa, a software engineer and Paperless Document Organization Guide interviewee. Through DocumentSnap you’ve been introduced to the Paperless Workflow, which relates to organising documents. You may also have been introduced to the Getting Things Done system, which relates to taking action. The two can be used very effectively […]

9 Hazel For Downloaded Files Part 2: Applying OpenMeta Tags

A month ago, I posted about how to use Hazel to process downloaded PDF files. It was getting pretty technical, so I decided to end it before taking it one step further: how to use Hazel to apply OpenMeta tags to the files. Both in the comments and in my email, there have been a […]

4 Author + ScanSnap + Hazel + TextExpander = Time To Write

This is a guest post from Michelle Muto, author of the newly released book The Book of Lost Souls. I’ve slowly been going paperless for about two years. It was part of my new mantra, “Everything you must have owns you.” I cleaned out closets, rooms, cabinets. I saved the worst for last – the […]

16 Use Hazel To Magically Process Downloaded PDFs

You know how sometimes you come across a tip that is so clever you are both happy to have learned it and annoyed that you didn’t think of it yourself at the same time? That’s how I felt sitting in Katie Floyd’s Going Paperless presentation at Macworld 2011 (more on my Macworld roundup here). It […]

29 Hazel Rule To OCR Documents Using PDFPen

The other day I posted an Applescript to OCR documents using PDFPen. In the comments, awesome DocumentSnap reader Josh requested that it be done as a Hazel rule instead. Given that my love for Hazel is well documented, I am happy to oblige. I created a folder and then created the following Hazel rule to […]

20 Behind These Paperless Evernote Hazel Eyes

Using the Kelly Clarkson quote was just way too easy, I know. This post is not in fact about American Idol winners, but is about Hazel, a Mac-only rules-based file management application. It does a ton of stuff, but today I am going to talk about how you can use it in a paperless workflow. […]