Archives for the ‘Workflow’ Category

The Guillotine and the Saw

How does one go about making nice pretty scans of sheets of paper that happen to be so inconveniently bound in a book? I’m not kidding about the saw. Last Sunday I decided to scan in some aging technical manuals, but they were at least an inch thick each, and there was absolutely no way [...]

Carefully inspect all scanned documents

Today I sat down to scan in a few lengthy documents, on the order of hundreds of pages. I carefully riffled them to avoid stuck sheets, dropped them in the scanner, and pressed the button. After the scanning was complete, I combined the resulting files into one and prepared to run OCR on the whole [...]

Pick a file name style and stick with it

As soon as you begin storing your paper life on your computer, you are faced with the question of how to name your files. If you carefully select one system and stick with it, your entire document workflow will improve. Here are some thoughts to consider, and a suggestion or two.

A couple of starting points

Just wanted to share the article from Macworld that gave me my original inspiration to quit nibbling ’round the edges of the home paperwork mess and get serious, with the right hardware, software, and workflow. The real paperless office A couple of months back, the author, Joe Kissel, wrote a followup article to the original. [...]

Five minutes in the paperless life

A brief look at five minutes of my day, where I was able to take advantage of my paperless workflow, and get the auto registration taken care of in the bargain. This is the kind of moment that makes me smile a little.