Work flow is inherent in the kind of work that we do when scanning, indexing, searching, filing, tagging, and backing up all of our documents, photos, music, and video. Once you are committed to digital media, you will find that you often need to cobble together different programs in order to do away with some of the tedious manual labor.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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. [...]

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.