By Legal Futures Associate Casedo [1]
You’re a busy lawyer, I’m a busy lawyer. I won’t waste time with a long article.
Instead, I want to beam out one short and sweet thought—one that was years in the making and that hit me like the proverbial ton of bricks when it finally crystallized:
I need a PDF workspace, not just a PDF reader.
No wonder I was so frustrated using Adobe Acrobat to open 5+ documents, using tabs (that got smaller and smaller the more documents I opened) to maneuver from document to document, adding my notes and figuring out how the files related. I was using a PDF reader, but I wasn’t merely reading documents, I was working on them.
This realization led to a game-changing transformation in my document workflows.
I now relegate my PDF reader to only things it helps me with (i.e., reading a single document and filling out a form or signing that document). And I use Casedo [2]—a PDF workspace—when I’m engaged in higher-order thinking with multiple files.
Within a few hours of starting my free trial, Casedo [2] became an integral part of my workflows, helping me map out how documents intersect, create links between files and annotate with bookmarks, comments, and a pleasant range of highlighter colors.
At this point, I’m asking colleagues—and I’m asking you: Have you tried working with a PDF workspace [2] instead of just a PDF reader? I encourage you to give it a try [3].