For the last year I've been scanning all my bills, receipts, statements, etc. as I process them, and it's definitely made life easier when I needed to lay hands on some particular piece of information. (Although the time when I needed to provide copies of paperwork to someone, they could only receive it as a fax -- so I had to print it out and then fax the hardcopy. *sigh*)
Scanning all my article offprints will make things much easier to find when I want them. Currently I have to remember which subfolder of which folder in which drawer to look in. The scanned copies are all indexed in my pre-existing bibliography spreadsheet, so I can search on any piece of the citation (or filter on my topic structure) and it'll give me the name of the pdf file. It'll also make life easier when people inquire about copies.
I'm finally getting the hand of how to use my Scan Snap scanner efficiently. What with things being stapled or paperclipped and dogeared and generally "difficult" I can't just plunk down a stack of pages into the sheet feeder. But if I feed the pages into the sheet-feeder one at a time as it's processing, it's still a lot faster than the older place-on-the-glass method. (The scanner also doesn't mind if I get several pages ahead -- the important part is to have clearly separated them before stacking them up in queue.)
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Date: 2011-01-23 05:34 am (UTC)Scanning all my article offprints will make things much easier to find when I want them. Currently I have to remember which subfolder of which folder in which drawer to look in. The scanned copies are all indexed in my pre-existing bibliography spreadsheet, so I can search on any piece of the citation (or filter on my topic structure) and it'll give me the name of the pdf file. It'll also make life easier when people inquire about copies.
I'm finally getting the hand of how to use my Scan Snap scanner efficiently. What with things being stapled or paperclipped and dogeared and generally "difficult" I can't just plunk down a stack of pages into the sheet feeder. But if I feed the pages into the sheet-feeder one at a time as it's processing, it's still a lot faster than the older place-on-the-glass method. (The scanner also doesn't mind if I get several pages ahead -- the important part is to have clearly separated them before stacking them up in queue.)