3 Steps to Going Paperless
Digitizing and scanning your papers can free up space and make finding your information easier. Here’s three ideas for how to get started.
Digitizing and scanning your papers can free up space and make finding your information easier. Here’s three ideas for how to get started.
To stay on top of your paper, you’ll need a system for dealing with paper throughout its lifecycle.
Reduce the amount of paper coming into your life, weed out the papers already piled up, and consider electronic options before you put more paper in the world.
One of my areas of specialty in my productivity and organizing consulting work is paper management – helping my clients determine the best ways to process, manage and store the paper in their lives and in their work. I actually enjoy working with paper and processing information (hey, I’m a professional organizer, right?), but I… Read More
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Being a Certified Professional Organizer, I actually enjoy working with paper – I know, I’m strange! Even so, I don’t want to spend too much time on it; like you, I have many other tasks on my to-do list. One of my big goals for 2010 is to reduce the amount of paper that I… Read More
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We’ve got way to go to reach the paperless future shown in The Jetsons and Star Trek. During the course of daily life, many of us are faced with a deluge of paper, all of which needs to be dealt with in some way. Many people I’ve worked with are drowning in stacks, piles, and… Read More
We’ve got way to go to reach the paperless future shown in The Jetsons and Star Trek. During the course of daily life, many of us are faced with a deluge of paper, all of which needs to be dealt with in some way. Many people I’ve worked with are drowning in stacks, piles, and… Read More
You can organize your personal finances easier by gathering up all your bills and receipts, sorting throughout them, finding a permanent place to store them, and tracking incoming financial papers.