

The app allows simple selection of some defaults (whiteboard, document etc) to set things up and then attempts to auto crop the content (and does a good job for most things). Its purpose is to allow you to quickly take notes using the phones camera. Office Lens: This is a smartphone app for iPhone, Android and Windows 10 Mobile.

Given that law firms are mainly users of Microsoft Office and are now generally on smartphone platforms it’s a great combination for the lawyers. I’ve used Office Lens and OneNote for so long now that I figure others must know about it and be using it? But if not then there are folks missing out on a really useful tool for anyone who needs to collate information from various sources (whiteboard write ups, projector screens, hand written notes on paper, printed documents, business cards etc). This is one of those blog posts that I’ve thought about for a while, but worried that I was stating the bleeding obvious and so have put it off.
