Brooks Duncan helps individuals and small businesses go paperless at DocumentSnap.com where he writes about tools, workflows, and taking action. He’s a Chartered Professional Accountant and he has been a software developer and support manager in organizations from a three person startup to a 55,000 employee multinational. Brooks lives in Vancouver, Canada.
In this episode, Zachary talks about going paperless. Brooks shares his recommended tools and hardware to get you up and running with a paperless system of your own as quickly as possible.
Links
Evernote
Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
Evernote Essentials
Brett Kelly
TextExpander Mac only
Breevy PC alternative to TextExpander
College Info Geek
Hazel Mac only
File Juggler PC alternative to Hazel
Brooks’ Paperless with Hazel Webinar
Fujitsu ScanSnap ix500 scanner for big jobs
Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300i scanner for smaller jobs
Fujitsu ScanSanp ix100 mobile scanner
Neat scanner for small to medium jobs
Book
Tool
Alfred
OmniFocus Premium Posts (thanks, Brooks!)
Resource
Paperless Document Organization Guide
documentsnap.com – Brooks’ website
@documentsnap | @brooksduncan
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REALLY appreciated the Windows alternatives! Thank you!
Loved this episode. Bought the snapscan and Brooks video on how to use Hazel effectively – which was a real godsend since the publishers have a limited resource on their site.
Great episode.
Thanks,
Craig
AHK (AutoHotKey) is another free alternative to Textexpander for Windows.
Guys, your podcast is really cool, but the episodes are released too fast ! I can’t keep up with the pace. :)
Haha thanks Alix. We’ll be releasing daily Mon-Fri in January and then go weekly in Feb. So you can binge this month :)