[I] 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.…
Finding the perfect writing app is to a writer what El Dorado must be to an archeologist. There are occasional glimmers of home, but rarely do we find something that meets just about all of our needs. Except that I think I finally found my El Dorado in a product called Writer, made by Information Architects. I spent the…
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…
Just a reminder that Evernote’s 30-Day Paperless Challenge begins tomorrow. You can find all of the details over on the Evernote Blog. There is a Facebook Event page for the challenge. I will be peeking in there from time-to-time. I will also be using my weekly Going Paperless Tips post to provide a few tips…