Online Tools8 min read
The browser can now do the work: tools that run on your device
Background removal, transcription, OCR and format conversion increasingly run inside the tab. That changes the privacy question for a whole category of free tools.
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Productivity9 min read
Free online tools that upload your files, and when that matters
Some browser tools do the work on your machine and some send your document to a server. The difference is invisible in the interface and easy to check yourself.
Text Tools9 min read
Cleaning up messy text: the five operations that solve most of it
Text pasted from a PDF, an email or a spreadsheet arrives broken in a small number of recognisable ways. Each has a fix that takes seconds once you can name the problem.
Digital Workflows8 min read
A file naming scheme that survives three years
Folders stop working once there are enough of them. Names keep working, if they are built so that sorting alphabetically produces something useful.
How-To Guides10 min read
How to compress a PDF without ruining it
PDF size is almost always images, and almost every compression tool solves it by making them worse. Knowing which knob is being turned lets you choose the trade rather than accept it.