Make Your Life Easier in 2 Simple Steps

Welcome to the first Tech Talk Tuesday. Most readers of this blog are self-employed in some fashion. If you are, you probably know that there are hassles that come with being self-employed. One of the biggest is the amount of paper that seems to stack up. Bank accounts, taxes, investments, payrolls, lawyers, receipts, bills, invoices the list goes on. I have found a solution that has made our lives so much easier. Steps: 1) Go to Amazon and buy a Fujitsu S300M or S1500M. I recommend the S300M unless you have a really out of control paper situation. The 300 does basically everything the 1500 does. 2) Get an Evernote account. It's free to try, but you're going to want to upgrade to get the search within documents. What's this going to do? The Fujitsu ScanSnap allows you to 1-button scan directly into Evernote. Evernote allows you to search within all of your documents even if they are just scanned PDFs, as well as tag them however you want. This is a game-changer for most people. Suddenly instead of having to file things into a file cabinet, and not be able to find them when you need them, you can just search all of your documents. Here are instructions for the S300M and Evernote on a Mac Or Scan to Evernote on Windows. My desk is clear for the first time in years.