Personal Productivity
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ScanSnap and Conquering the Business Card Pile Up
Tuesday, May 14, 2013In my continuing quest to go paperless this year, I decided to finally attack my growing pile of business cards. I had known that ScanSnap has a business card scanning application for some time now – CardIris for Mac and CardMinder for PC – but frankly had been a bit intimidated about starting to use [...]
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10 Helpful Ways to Utilize Your Office Space
Wednesday, May 8, 2013Now that you’ve freed up all that clutter in your office, it’s time to utilize that extra space with new ideas that will help with your everyday life. Don’t just leave empty space around the place, take advantage of it! Add in that extra monitor you’ve always wanted but never had the space for. An [...]
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Should Old Paper Be Forgot?
Tuesday, December 18, 2012Reflecting on the past and setting goals with promises of new beginnings are the things we typically focus on as we start a new year. New Year’s is when people think about the changes they want to make in their lives and the resolve to make those changes a reality. The top ten New Year’s [...]
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Running a Small Business is No Small Feat
Monday, November 26, 2012Ah, the joys of owning a small business, and more specifically a restaurant group. On one hand I have the hiring and maintaining of 150 employees, tax deadlines, pleasing thousands of customers, constant promotions and dealing with the occasional plumbing leak at 2:00 am. On the plus side, I have the gratitude of returning business, [...]
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The Business of Going Paperless: An Intro to Patrick Albrecht, Small Business Squad Member
Monday, November 19, 2012Finally all my dreams of no longer being handed paper are coming true. Whether it was a business card, receipt for a food order, Post-it note, invoice, or employee paperwork, I was drowning in the daily wave of paper. With ScanSnap, I’ve been warmly welcomed to the future where if you want to live a [...]
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Wow! Now that I’ve got a ScanSnap, now what?
Monday, July 9, 2012Here are two questions I see come up a lot: As a ScanSnap user what do I do with my documents once I get them into my Mac? And how can I make changes to these PDF documents? Great questions! In a previous article I mentioned how you can scan directly to your desktop or [...]
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Here’s To You, College Graduate
Thursday, May 17, 2012If you recently graduated or are preparing for the big event, we want to congratulate you! After hours of note taking, paper writing and last minute assignment finishing (you know who you are), you’ve finally made it to the end of this road, where a paper diploma marks your transition into the “real world.” [...]
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Lasagna for Garfield, but Jon needs a ScanSnap
Tuesday, March 20, 2012We don’t get all our wisdom from Garfield, but a majority of it, yes, comes from the orange cat. The Garfield comic from March 18th shows an overwhelmed Jon in desperate need of a solution to organize his receipts, fortune cookie fortunes, and high school locker combination, among other things. [Source: Garfield] Now, how do we [...]
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Daylight Savings Time – Enjoy More Hours of Daylight, Don’t Waste Time Bogged Down in Paper
Monday, March 12, 2012I love daylight savings time! It signals the beginning of spring with a glimmer of summer out there on the horizon. I start to sense its arrival when I wake each morning and it is just a little bit lighter than it was the day before and the evenings seem to linger just a little [...]
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We’re Assembling A Group of Organization And Productivity Experts, And It’s All for YOU!
Tuesday, February 7, 2012Almost three years ago we launched the ScanSnap Community. It was created to provide the growing number of ScanSnap users with a source for information and news relating to our world — the world of document scanning. Since that date in March 2009, the ScanSnap Community has become one of the most valuable resources for [...]
