115 How To Go Paperless




The Voluntary Life show

Summary: 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 themKey tools for digitizing your paper and going paperless: a multipage scanner (such as the Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300i), a shredder and EvernoteKeeping labelling and metadata simple: the three key attributes of date, location and person/organisationOptions about where to store digital data: secure encrypted drives vs services like EvernoteWhat to scan and what to simply delete.A good site for more tips about going paperless is DocumentSnap Podcast Episode