How To Go Paperless

This episode is about how to go paperless and what the benefits are. Topics covered include:

How accumulating paper limits your flexibility and freedom

Simple steps to reduce the paper you accumulate such as using e-billing and e-books.

Ways to minimise the paper books you own, such as selling them as soon as you have read them

Key tools for digitizing your paper and going paperless: a multipage scanner (such as the Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300i), a shredder and Evernote

Keeping labelling and metadata simple: the three key attributes of date, location and person/organisation

Options about where to store digital data: secure encrypted drives vs services like Evernote

What to scan and what to simply delete.

A good site for more tips about going paperless is DocumentSnap

[Paseosinperro]

I am spending my night listening to your podcast :) Love them

[danas]

excellent subject and I really love listening to your voice

[MsKeepMoving]

how did you get rid of your paperbooks? scan each one?