Video: Use Cover Flow On The Mac To Process Documents

This video on Cover Flow is part of a series of quick videos on paperless tips and topics. View more in the series here.

If you are on a Mac and want to process your documents without using extra software, Cover Flow can be a really handy feature. I believe I first picked up this tip from Paperless Document Organization Guide interviewee Alex Satrapa, but it has also been covered in this paperless workflow forum post by DocumentSnap reader Harry.

As a bonus, I also threw in an example of using TextExpander and Hazel

View the video below, or click here to watch it on YouTube. If you are able to, I recommend that you watch it with HD turned on.

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Brooks Duncan helps individuals and small businesses go paperless. He's been an accountant, a software developer, a manager in a very large corporation, and has run DocumentSnap since 2008. You can find Brooks on Twitter at @documentsnap or @brooksduncan. Thanks for stopping by.

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Alex - January 8, 2014 Reply

With Mavericks, this workflow also allows you to tag your files, just like the folks using Yep/Leap/Tagger have been doing for years!

Brooks Duncan - January 8, 2014 Reply

Great point Alex! I’m still impressed with how smooth the transition from OpenMeta to Mavericks tags has been.

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