Snapdone News

July 17-19, 2008, Snapdone will host a Rest and Recreation Room (with serious toys) for WSBA members, family and friends at the 2008 Solo and Small Firm Conference at the Wenatchee Convention Center in Wenatchee, Washington. This year we will have a dedicated space and plenty of room. Contact sharon@snapdone.com for more details.

Free Snapnumbers Now Available! A free version of the Snapnumbers program is now available for download (click here to visit the download page). The free version is not time-limited, and allows full use and control of Snapnumbers, including predefined and custom numbering schemes. Upgrading from the free version to the full version (still $20 per license) will enable these additional features: SnapTOC (easy tables of contents), Snapsymbols, the ability to save custom numbering schemes for future use, sharing custom numbering schemes with others in your office, and easy office-wide distribution of the Snapnumbers program over a network.

On April 25, 2007, Snapdone was written up in TechnoLawyer:

Most law offices today run on Microsoft Word. Yet, most law offices do not believe they run as smoothly as possible on Microsoft Word thanks to its annoyances and quirks. Plus most of us are not power users who have the time to tweak Word to work the way we want it to work.

Snapdone's eponymous product is a suite of Word add-ons designed to make life easier for lawyers and law office personnel who rely on Word. Snapdone adds a menu to Microsoft Word with all of its features accessible in that menu. Snapdone focuses on automatic numbering, contact management, document management, and forms.

Many hairs have turned gray in law firms thanks to Word's notoriously flaky numbering styles. Snapnumbers provides paragraph numbering that won't mess up your formatting. SnapTOC creates tables of contents based on your numbering system as you type or even after you finish a document. Snapdone also provides you with easy control of printer options and a large set of keyboard shortcuts to speed up common tasks.

Snapdone also adds some convenient ways to work with your contact information in Outlook. Snapdata produces a set of virtual index cards that everyone in your office can use. You can also "clip" these cards together into groups to help you manage cases and other projects. You can link the cards to your Outlook contacts so everything gets automatically updated. From these index cards, you can generate letters, fax cover sheets, memos, envelopes, shipping labels, email messages, etc.

Snapdone also helps law firms with document management. For example, Snapsave enables you to consistently name and store documents in folders, and stamp each one with a unique 8-digit identifying code. Snapopen helps you locate and and check out documents, thus providing versioning so that you can keep track of changes made by different authors.

Snapdone comes with many standard forms for your office -- from letterhead and fax cover sheets to labels and court captions. You can even create a "caption bank" for each of the courts in which you practice. You can also assemble your own custom forms using menu-driven form-generation tools. Snapdone offers flexible form fields thanks to quick fill-ins, document merges, and its ability to import material from existing documents.

Snapdone requires Microsoft Word 97, 2000, XP, 2003, or 2007, plus Outlook for the Outlook-related features. Unlike many document management systems and shared contact databases, it does not require an SQL server, a big cost savings, especially for small firms. Snapdone can operate on any type of network -- even a simple peer-to-peer home network. Snapdone sells for $595 for the first computer and $145 for each additional computer.