Have you ever seen something in the store and thought OOOOOOO I really want that, but then you wonder if it is really going to be as useful as you think it will be? I know I have, and some I have bought them and nope they were not, and some were way more than I thought they would be.
There are a few items I just leave at the store and think "One day you shall be mine!" Well the
Dymo CardScan falls into this category. I really wanted it, but can't even talk myself into paying $5 for a ball of yarn just because I want it. So when I was asked to review the Dymo CardScan I hopped out of my seat jumped up and down, and then calmly wrote "Sure that sounds great!"
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| Dymo CardScan Personal - Model: CardScan 62 |
As a review blogger, and as a mom, I find we are always given business cards for one thing or another, and I always just stash them in what I think is going to be a good spot...but can never find them when I need them. So I end up trying to remember the name and company to do a search online. Are you with me on this? Oh another problem I have is, a lot of my contacts just email me, and then I am trying to think about the person who contacted me about a product or service I end up searching my emails for the contact, and wasting tons of time. It makes me insane.
The Dymo CardScan Personal
makes managing contact information fast, accurate and portable. It comes with a little carrying case, and only needs to be plugged into your computer via a USB Cable!
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| What came in the box |
I like to think of myself as tech savvy, but sometimes I am not at all. LOL I try to set up these things on my own and inevitably I end up calling hubby for help. But with this, there was no calling hubby. Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy I got the software installed, and set up.
Next I wanted to scan a business card, and I just put it where the bright blue arrow was, and voila!! it pulled it through. It pulls all the data in and puts it into the contact database as best it can. On my hubby's card, which is white background in standard format, and has tons of information on it, it pulled all the info and I only had to add in his personal info that isn't on the card.
For some of the ones that are more fancy, it wasn't always sure where to put some info, but it did a great job still! I found with a quick edit here and there it was really quite quick and simple. You can even do batch sets, so if you went to a conference you could scan all the cards in one set. It only takes a couple of seconds per card for it to scan and put on the computer in the database. You can even put the same card in again with the back side down and tell it to do the back, if they have info on the back of the card you want captured.
There is a place to put notes in for each contact, and you can pick your category as to how you want to classify them. If you want to make a new category you can do that too.
It is extremely portable, and is made for you take on the road with you. So for all you conference goers, you could bring this with you, and scan business cards in the hotel in the evenings, or if you have a lunch break pull it out and scan while eating (hee hee or even during a boring speaker ROFL)! I have to say, people will be completely jealous!
So maybe you are a completely organized person and are thinking you already have a lot of your contacts set up in Microsoft
Outlook®, Outlook® Express, Palm® Desktop or Windows® Mobile, you can set up your cardscan to add them there instead!
Ok here is the part that totally blew my mind! Seriously, I read that it did this and went WHAT??? NO WAY!!! And it totally did it!!! Ok ok telling you what it does now....
Dymo’s CardScan also makes managing your email contacts easy. You know how just about every person who sends an email from their place of business has a signature, and in that signature is all the contact information you will ever need for them? Well, all you have to do is highlight the contact information in an email signature,
web page or other text file and drag it over to the CardScan software. It then puts that information into your contacts in the CardScan software! I loved "my new toy" as it was before I found this out... Seriously now I am crazy about it. This is going to make my blogging business and craft business organized in the area I have been having the most trouble with!
The CardScan Personal device
retails for $189.99 at office supplies stores (Staples, Grand & Toy,
Basics). I bet with the holiday season you might even find a better deal than that, although I think it is worth the money.
I highly recommend this! It is an amazing tool, and will organize your life even if you don't have a business. If you do, I would say this is a must have, and you can claim it as a business expense. Oh and put it on your Christmas list, and maybe Santa will get it for you!
