Comments on: Great Paperless Workflow Post At Interface Matters http://www.documentsnap.com/great-paperless-workflow-post-at-interface-matters/ Learn How To Go Paperless With Easy Document Tips Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:47:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: BrooksD http://www.documentsnap.com/great-paperless-workflow-post-at-interface-matters/comment-page-1/#comment-565 BrooksD Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:48:05 +0000 http://www.documentsnap.com/great-paperless-workflow-post-at-interface-matters/#comment-565 Yeah, I hear you. The database thing is a bit hardcore for me, but it sounds like he lives inside Lotus Notes. So I guess, for him, having everything in a Notes db makes sense. Yeah, I hear you. The database thing is a bit hardcore for me, but it sounds like he lives inside Lotus Notes. So I guess, for him, having everything in a Notes db makes sense.

]]> By: Bob http://www.documentsnap.com/great-paperless-workflow-post-at-interface-matters/comment-page-1/#comment-561 Bob Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:16:01 +0000 http://www.documentsnap.com/great-paperless-workflow-post-at-interface-matters/#comment-561 Watched the videos. All sounded OK until, after scanning and naming the file(s), said "... and the next step is to use a database..." What!!? So, having saved all that time not fussing with filing, he's going to spend that time, and more I bet, entering info about every document in a database!? Holy paradigm shift, Batman! - NOT. This is the electronic equivalent of physically filing paper shuffling drudgery. Does that database go into that dropbox (web-based doc backup) cloud too? Does he have lotus notes on every machine he wants to access from? Yet MORE software is needed to get at documents? IMHO... Once a doc is in bits in the computer, and in bits in the shredder (ha, ha. I make a funny) I'm going to find docs three ways: Decent file names, tags, and by content if I make the doc "searchable" (as discussed in the videos). No database required. Well, in a sense The operating system is the database. A database captures information and has ways of finding that stuff efficiently. Gosh, I just described Macintosh OS X. ... OK, and Windoze too. When I scan they "go to" my tagging software, where I give it a name and *quickly* add tags and ... DONE. To find a doc, just search for it. Duh. Good file names and tagging technique help me find it fast. Watched the videos. All sounded OK until, after scanning and naming the file(s), said "… and the next step is to use a database…" What!!?

So, having saved all that time not fussing with filing, he's going to spend that time, and more I bet, entering info about every document in a database!? Holy paradigm shift, Batman! – NOT. This is the electronic equivalent of physically filing paper shuffling drudgery.

Does that database go into that dropbox (web-based doc backup) cloud too? Does he have lotus notes on every machine he wants to access from? Yet MORE software is needed to get at documents?

IMHO…
Once a doc is in bits in the computer, and in bits in the shredder (ha, ha. I make a funny) I'm going to find docs three ways: Decent file names, tags, and by content if I make the doc "searchable" (as discussed in the videos). No database required.

Well, in a sense The operating system is the database. A database captures information and has ways of finding that stuff efficiently. Gosh, I just described Macintosh OS X. … OK, and Windoze too.

When I scan they "go to" my tagging software, where I give it a name and *quickly* add tags and … DONE. To find a doc, just search for it. Duh. Good file names and tagging technique help me find it fast.

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