A catch word that has popped up more and more in the last couple of years is going ‘Paperless’. Obviously, the less of a need to use paper has a positive impact on the environment and to be honest paper generally equals unnecessary clutter right? So how do we minimize the use of paper.
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An area that I wasn’t able to master for quite some time
until recently is how to scan a document or photos into Evernote directly,
without the need of an extra step of having to create a new note and then
attaching the scanned material manually. This was especially difficult while working
on my family tree and trying to capture all of the documents and put them into
Evernote was quite time consuming.
Having searched on Google and read articles on the Evernote
web site about how to scan documents into Evernote, the solution that was most
apparent was to purchase a Fujitsu ScanSnap compatible scanner which has built in functionality to push scanned documents straight into
Evernote. Ultimately this looked to be
the simplest way of being able to do what I had been trying to accomplish and
was very close to making the purchase but after further searching I found a web
site named Wappwolf. From reading about the site
I found that Wappwolf is an automation service for Dropbox users to automate
the use of moving files in and out of Dropbox and to cut down on manual
work. Considering I have a Dropbox
account and one of services that I could automatically moving of files to is Evernote,
I had a lightblub moment and figured that this might actually allow me to do
what I have been trying to do with my scanned documents. After having tried it, I can happily say it
works like a charm.