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1. Do you use the EverNote iPhone app? If so, what do you think of it?

   I asked a friend at work about it and he said that it missed a bit, because it tried to load all of the images and was a bit clunky because of that. But that’s one person’s opinion, and he hasn’t used it for a while. Has it gotten more responsive?

   Comment by mbhunter — Aug 7th 2009 @ 1:28 am

2. Going paperless has a lot of advantages. We implement as many paperless practices as we can in our personal life and in our business. On-line banking of course, saves us from storing a ton of paper alone and the information is kept secure.

   However, it’s still hard for some of our customers to get away from old habits. We occasionally have customers, especially businesses that want a FAX of their receipt even though they have an email with it sitting in their “in box.” Also, hardly a day goes by without a paper catalog request. We always end up explaining that our products are updated too often for a paper catalog to be feasible. In addition, not having to pay for the expense of printing paper catalogs allows us to offer our products at a lower cost to our customers. Old habits die hard!

   Comment by DennisB — Aug 7th 2009 @ 7:11 am

3. mbhunter: I do use it, and I think it’s fine. Somewhat limited, but no moreso than you’d expect for a phone app. I mostly use it for capturing information or accessing frequently used info in text notes. It does sync things across when you open it (e.g., if you added stuff on your desktop, it’s presence has to get sync’d to your phone). However, it seems to cache this info so it only has to be done once for any given item. Also, you don’t actually have to wait around for this to happen. If you need quick access to something that’s already on board, you can pull it up right away.

   One thing to note is that for images, etc. it seems to sync the existence of that item to your phone (described above), but you still have to download it when you want to access it. However, when you re-access it, it loads very quickly — seems to cache the item itself locally when accessed, but I’m not sure how much the cache holds or for how long.

   Comment by Nickel — Aug 7th 2009 @ 8:13 am

4. I saw that Life Hacker article and have been moving towards paperless (slowly) myself for a while…my biggest stumbling block has been my lack of a scanner.

   Is your fujitsu windows only? I thought you used a mac? Any advice there on a specific model? Ideally I’m looking for something that can scan 300 dpi so that I can use it for business purposes.

   Comment by Blaine Moore — Aug 12th 2009 @ 7:43 am

5. Blaine: I do use a Mac, and thus I have the S300M. It’s kind of annoying, but they differentiate between platforms with different models (S300 vs. S300M). I believe you can hack the firmware to switch platforms, but they don’t make it easy.

   Comment by Nickel — Aug 12th 2009 @ 8:01 am

6. Cool…does it have any sort of OCR software that comes with it or is it just image to PDF?

   Comment by Blaine Moore — Aug 12th 2009 @ 8:27 am

7. Blaine: The S300 and S300M do not come with OCR software, but you can get Readiris for free via mail — or at least you could for the Mac when I bought. Still waiting on my software to show up, but I can OCR with Acrobat. You can also get pdf OCR with the premium version of Evernote (they also do OCR/handwriting recognition on jpgs with the basic version).

   The next model up (500 level) does OCR out of the box, but is much more expensive. However, it also includes a full version of Acrobat. Since I already have Acrobat, that was a non-issue for me, but it effectively brings the price down if you want both a scanner and Acrobat.

   Comment by Nickel — Aug 12th 2009 @ 8:38 am

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