Based on the emails I receive and your answers to my annual survey, DocumentSnap readers like you are interested in going paperless but are unsure about the following three things: How do you organize your paperless documents once you’ve scanned them? Once you’ve filed your electronic documents away, how do you find them again? How […]
Continue readingSo apparently January is “Clean Your Computer Month”. I don’t know about that, but the new year is as good of a time as any to get your digital files sorted out. I don’t normally share this sort of thing, but the folks at SingleHop sent me their “Clean Computer Calendar” which is a 3 […]
Continue readingIn October 2014 I had the pleasure of speaking at the SimpleREV conference, and I was lucky enough to speak right before David Delp. I say lucky because by the end of his talk he had us all a) dedicating ourself to our most important goals and b) singing. Thank God I didn’t have to […]
Continue readingI’m a big podcast listener and was happy to hear that the folks at Asian Efficiency were starting a new podcast called The Productivity Show. I was even happier when they asked me if I’d be a guest, so here’s my episode: The Productivity Show, Episode 7: Going Paperless w/ Brooks Duncan. I had a […]
Continue readingRecently I posted a cheery blog post called Going Paperless And Your Digital Afterlife. At the risk of being obnoxious and quoting myself: Have you ever thought about what will happen to your digital accounts and assets if you get hit by a bus tomorrow? Will someone be able to get to your email? What […]
Continue readingOne of my favorite podcasts is Mac Power Users and this week they did a great episode called The Power of PDFs. The hosts David Sparks and Katie Floyd were joined by the awesome Ernest Svenson from PaperlessChase to do a deep dive on all things PDF. As with many MPU shows, the tools that […]
Continue readingEarlier this year I was at the annual conference for the National Association of Professional Organizers. I was sitting in the audience for a talk by Heather Ahern from The Functional Home entitled Advance Planning for Your Virtual Afterlife. Out of all the excellent presentations I attended at that conference, this one has stuck with […]
Continue readingI don’t know how, but it seems like 75% of the kids on my son’s soccer team have parents that are teachers. Because of this, and because I am terrible at small talk otherwise, I have become more interested in paperless classroom topics. I just came across this list by DailyGenius: The 8 Essential Tools […]
Continue readingI have done my fair share of public speaking, but it has generally been in a business context and mostly to professionals who want to learn how going paperless can improve their business or their life. This time was different. This time I was about to take the stage at SimpleREV in Minneapolis, and I […]
Continue readingBetween session handouts, itineraries, and notes, how the heck do you go paperless at a conference? In most events, there is paper coming at you from all directions. Julie Bestry from Best Results Organizing did a great blog post about her experience at a recent conference that I spoke at in Phoenix: NAPO2014: Taking Notes–The […]
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