As I have been using Aperture more and more these days, I have sort of left iView Media Pro, one of my all time favorite apps, in the dust. Fortunately, this past weekend I discovered a really great use for iView.
As a freelance photographer I am also a small business owner. This means that I have to spend countless hours updating my books, paying bills, and sending out invoices. Since I don’t have (well not yet anyway) an office manager, I have to do all the bookkeeping by myself. This takes up time that could be better used creating images.
One of the things I have been trying to do in order to cut back on all this office time has been to go paperless. Not only is a paperless office good for the environment, but it also allows me to take my documents with me anywhere I go. In addition to making things more portable, a paperless office also makes my life much easier. I no longer have to file bank statements away in a cabinet, and I don’t have spend time looking for statements if I need to check some figure. Everything is right there on my computer, searchable, and readily available.
So, I decided to use iView MediaPro to organize my documents. Nearly everything I have is in PDF format. In the same way in which I organize my photos, I can use the power of iView to keep track of all of my bank statements, business contracts, receipts and more. I can also add keywords to each document making them that much more easy to locate.
iView does a really nice job with PDF documents. I can look through the documents in thumbnail form, and even look through an individual document’s pages. I can also easily open each document in Acrobat, and iView keeps track of where each document exists on my hard drive.
Yet another use for Digital Asset Management software!