spent much of my weekend scanning nearly 1,300 pages worth of documents in the filing cabinet. The only reason I did it is because we’re getting rid of the filing cabinet to make way for some new furniture. I scanned all of the pages using my Fujitsu Scansnap s1300i, and in all of those pages,…
ay back when I decided to go paperless, I made the decision not to go and scan everything in the filing cabinet. The reason was primarily because I never had to look for anything in the filing cabinet. It would have been a waste of time to scan in paper that I would never use. So…
I promised this year that once a month, I’d post a more advanced “going paperless” automation post. Since this is my 100th Going Paperless post, I have a special one planned for today. It is more than just an automation post, it is a kind of call to action for those interested in extending what…
have what I think is a really good “advanced” Going Paperless automation post for this week, which marks my 100th post in the series. It has taken me a little longer to write than I expected, and still needs some work. I want to get it right, however, and rather than rush it, I’m going…
few weeks back, I wrote about how I use the Drafts app to quickly add common notes to Evernote, including appending items to existing notes. The Drafts app is a Mac-only app, and my solution, therefore, was really a Mac-only solution. The truth is that the bulk of my computing ecosystem is Macintosh, and I…
t occurred to me early this week that I am fast coming up on my 100th Going Paperless post. If my counting is correct, this is my 98th post, which means that #100 should arrive on about March 18. Thinking about this milestone got me thinking about achievements in general, and that in turn got…
here are certain types of email messages that I like to keep in Evernote because I find it useful to have them there. Receipts from places like Amazon or Audible, or instance, or travel itineraries are a few examples. I get weekly email reports on my FitBit activity, my cloud backup status, or my productivity…
egular readers of these posts know that I am very big on automating stuff that is repeatable. Adding notes to Evernote is one of those repeatable things, and I am always looking for ways to speed up and improve the process. Lately, I have been using the Drafts app more and more to get common…
promised that beginning this year, one of these posts each month would be a more advanced, in-depth post on how to use Evernote for automation. I mean to keep that promise, and thus, this post. Much of what you will find in this post in not terribly technical, but it does require some knowledge of…
have never jumped on board the GTD bandwagon. This is entirely because of my own failings, and not any failings with the methodology of GTD. It fits well for some, and not for others. I’ve read David Allen’s book multiple times, and I’ve tried his GTD methodology both before and after I used Evernote. For…
have a lot of books, as well as a lot of old science fiction magazines1. I adore books, and the books that I have on my shelves are part of a collection. I read them, but I don’t want to damage them in any way, least of all by marking them up. One of the…
esterday, I had a guest post on the Evernote Blog about paperless team meetings. Partially in response, David Barber wrote a post called “Why Technology is Never as Easy as They Say.” You should go read his post because there is a lot of truth in it. Two points he makes, in particular, ring true:…