Where’s that file?

Monday, May 19th, 2008

“Document management” was previously the domain of librarians and nerds in the filing room (no offense!). However, with the deluge of email, documents, spreadsheets, presentations, invoices, reports, and even more, it’s now a problem that everyone has to deal with.
Most versions of Windows (and other operating systems) use a file and folder based system for [...]

Document metadata in PDFs

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

More than a few people have been caught out by sharing documents which had sensitive information hidden in document metadata.
These slip-ups are primarily caused by a lack of understanding about document metadata — what it is, how it is created, edited, and removed — and also how it is stored within the file.
In this resource [...]

Get smart

Monday, May 5th, 2008

In a nutshell, what we’re looking to do is to overcome the problems inherent in a folder-based system. Remember the days of trying to locate a physical file you dropped in the wrong folder in a physical filing cabinet. In fact, I still periodically do this with invoices and other bills that our government hasn’t [...]