y 3-year-old has become a list-maker. Ever since last Christmas, when he started to get the concept of Santa Claus, he has been busy compiling lists of things that he wants Santa to bring him this holiday season. He doesn’t write these lists down of course. He points them out and depends on his parents…
I like keeping score when I watch baseball. It makes me feel more in tune with what is going on in the game. In the past, I’ve kept score on paper like just about everyone else who keeps score. But I am always looking for more ways to go paperless. So yesterday, for the first…
I’ve seen a bit of discussion lately on how folks use Evernote for blogging. There are a variety of different ways that people seem to use it. I thought I’d throw my own into the mix. One thing I’ll say right at the top is that I rarely use Evernote to write my blog posts. Instead,…
tried to keep the big picture in mind when I first decided to go paperless. Reducing the clutter and having access to my documents from just about anywhere was important, but I saw two additional advantages to being paperless: The ability to find something quickly. The ability to automate a lot of routine stuff. I’ll…
For those who couldn’t make the Twitter Party we had last night to wrap up Evernote’s 30 Day Paperless Challenge, I clipped the transcript into Evernote and have made it available in my shared notebook, Paperless Lifestyle. Feel free to view or subscribe to this shared notebook and check out the transcript from last night.…
We are almost at the end of Evernote’s 30-Day Paperless Challenge, and people are starting to post results. Most people seem pretty happy with how things have gone so far. In trying to think of a tips post that would be useful to people this week, I got to thinking that a lot of the…
For those of you participating in Evernote’s 30-Day Paperless Challenge, welcome to week 4! One of the great benefits of going paperless that I have discovered is that it allows you to automate a lot of things that–when they were done on paper–simply couldn’t be automated. I’ve found dozens of things that can be automated,…
Welcome to week #3 of Evernote’s 30-Day Paperless Challenge. By now you’ve probably gotten started and maybe you’ve even begun to organize your paperless life. Moving into week 3, you should have a pretty good process for getting rid of the paper that comes into your life. But what about producing paper? Every once-in-a-while, I…
So we’ve entered the second week of Evernote’s 30-Day Paperless Challenge. Last week I provided some tips for getting started, the most important of which was to make a habit out of scanning incoming paper each day. It takes a while for a habit to stick, but meanwhile, you’ve probably got a lot of digital…
While I was on my Internet Vacation, I spent some of the time I would normally burn on social networking sites looking for a To Do list system that would actually work for me. Over the years, I’ve tried many, but most are too complex, or too cumbersome when it comes to paperless devices. After…
As part of the Evernote 30-Day Paperless Challenge, I’ve gotten quite a few questions about my note templates, how I use them, and especially, if I would mind sharing them. So, with that in mind, I have created a shared notebook for Evernote with a few of my frequently used templates. Evernote users who want…
Evernote’s 30-Day Paperless Challenge begins today. You can read the details on the Evernote Blog and can join in at the Facebook Event page. I thought I would use my weekly Going Paperless tips post to provide tips and encouragement to those taking the challenge over the next four weeks. Know going into this that…