Evernote ( At least on the Macintosh (I don’t know about Linux and Windows) notebook applications are flooding the market: DevonThink, Yojimbo, Evernote, etc. Here are quick reviews of some applications I’m trying out in my work environment. Unfortunate, but in the end, I hope it will not be too bad. Just like the problems the IRS has on making simple tax code, my document management reality is too complicated for any one application to fit the bill.

I don’t have any application that fits the complete bill for this work. Once I have the PDF, I need to be able to organize the documents quickly and with a high degree of flexibility. I need to scan and OCR documents and convert them to PDF. My software requirements appear relatively simple. The following are just some quick thoughts… Software Feel free to contact me to suggest Windows and Linux alternatives for the same tasks. I’m primarily Macintosh based, so much of this will related to Macintosh software. The rest of this article will be on what I’m using to at least start this transition in terms of software and hardware. The remaining stuff, however, needs to move to the computer.

Some stuff I’ll always have to keep as paper, sadly. I throw away and give away what I can, but that is only a small dent in the problem. I’m out of space and managing everything is killing my productivity. Today, my office and basement are filled to capacity with documents, scientific papers, and books. I’ve been wanting to move in that direction for many years, but it still not easy to do. Almost since the inception of personal computing, the paperless office has been an unrealized promise.

Export evernote to yojimbo