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Scansnap / Editable/searchable PDFs

Hello. Still trying to figure out how to use this site/where to post. I do love this site and wanted to say that you guys have certainly fed my lust for the ScanSnap with my fantasies of a paper-less office.

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TOPICS: Ask 43f

Online Goal Setting Community?

Hi,

I was just wondering if any of you know of a good online community devoted to goal setting, motivation, and/or NLP?

I've searched, but haven't found much.

Thanks, Ted Chicago

HDD Folder oranization

HDD Folder oranization

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Comicraft bargains; Mac GTD app overview; Grep in Textmate Projects; The baffling desire to sleep less

the Hipster Laptop

I have outfitted a hard-cover sketchbook as my Hipster Laptop. Pictures here:

link: http://thedu.us/hLaptop

Seems to me like it's in tune w/ the spirit of the hPDA.

TOPICS: Lofi, hipster, hPDA

GTD and Daylite program for Mac?

I would like to communicate with people integrating Getting Things Done with the Daylite organizer program for Mac. If I find someone really proficient, I would be happy to hire you as a consultant. Thank you.

Richard Shane

TOPICS: Mac OS X

Track keywords all over the place with MonitorThis

MonitorThis

Your ability to ego-surf yourself (or, I suppose, just track a favorite "non-you" topic) is now a lot easier.

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TOPICS: Links

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Slate on Procrastination

Slate's special issue on procrastination. - - Slate Magazine

Slate is running a special issue this week on procrastination, a series of stories on why we waste time, what we do when we waste time, and how different types of people waste their time.

My favorites of the bunch so far:

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Batch OCR with Scansnap

I have one of the "older" Fujitsu Scansnaps (fi-5110EOXM) that came with Acrobat 7.0 only. I moved overseas right after getting the scanner and was unable to get Readris by mail-in. Now, I have no OCR capability except for Acrobat 7 Pro which seems to be non-useful (won't OCR, crashes). My scans don't show up in Spotlight. :(

I would love to 1) OCR my past scans as well as 2) continue to scan in rapid succession during the day and have something do OCR at night.

My questions:

-Is there any software that will do batch OCR on my scans that is affordable?

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