I recently had the pleasure of talking to reporter Ian Hardy from the BBC (!) about going paperless, and to my surprise my ramblings made it into the article: Clear your desk and go anywhere (almost) paperless.
The article has some good advice for going paperless, including some ideas that I had I had never considered such as using mindmaps to plan out your file structure.
Surprisingly it can be quite hard to create a system whereby every single piece of paper that lands on your desk, or is scrunched up in your pocket, has a pre-determined pathway to a digital existence.
For those of us that think visually one suggestion is to try Freemind.
It also covers some familiar hardware and software products, and some new-to-me tools such as the HoverCam. I look forward to learning more about that one.
On the subject of Ian Hardy, he also recently wrote a great article about tagging, not the easiest subject to explain. I recommend checking that out too.
(Photo by ell brown)