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By: GoingPaperless

GoingPaperless — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:29:42 +0000

Would highly recommend http://www.Shoeboxed.com for going paperless. Faster, Less Effort, Better Result than a Scanner

By: Samantha

Samantha — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:13:56 +0000

I’ve been using Yep! on my mac for scanning – easy to tag documents, fast, and so easy to retrieve. Well worth the effort!

By: Paperless Pete

Paperless Pete — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:44:03 +0000

I feel very free now that I got rid of all my paper. My wife still doesn’t believe in online bill payment though.

By: Monica Ricci

Monica Ricci — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:14:57 +0000

Oh, I forgot to mention… I have heard terrific things about ScanSnap from my colleagues (haven’t used it myself). Oh, and the last phone book I saw was in my driveway, just before I backed over it this morning. I SOOOO wish that the phone company would give you the option of NOT getting the phonebook. Ours goes right into the recycling bin. Imagine if people could opt out of the paper phonebook, how many trees would be saved!

~Monica

By: Monica Ricci

Monica Ricci — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:11:28 +0000

I think the benefit of the paperless options we have these days is the OPTIONS part of it. In 2008, you can still be completely paper-based if you want to. Yet, you can be virtually paperLESS if you want to. Or anywhere in between the two. We now have OPTIONS we never had before, which is wonderful, albeit gives you more to have to figure out.

I’m a hybrid. I like some information delivered and stored electronically, but I still rely heavily on paper, and in fact, have the equivalent of three file drawers of paper in my office. (much of which could likely be purged at this point)

My mantra is, and will continue to be, “Do whatever works best for you and evaluate periodically.”

~Monica

By: Shimon

Shimon — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:50:24 +0000

I would like to suggest a different approach of becoming paperless for windows users.

42Tags – is an easy to use application for scanning your document collection and managing it using one or more tags making retrieval instant, and it only costs 20$, see a demo video here http://www.42tags.com/video.htm

This is much preferred way than storing on folders, and the treating multi page is easy.

Of course backup is very important! And in 42Tags’ case you need to backup only one folder.

By: Sandy

Sandy — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:11:17 +0000

@Chris G – I have Neat Receipts and love it. We have a separate scanner, but NR makes it so much simpler!

By: Doc

Doc — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:21:39 +0000

I learned from someone who makes his living through direct mail that the printing industry originally saw computers as a threat that would decrease demand for print services as things went paperless but that, ironically, the single biggest consumer of print services is now printing of computer documentation. Paperless indeed!

By: Valerie

Valerie — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 07:24:25 +0000

I am not sure what world these people live in, but it’s not mine. I have more paper, receipts, junk mail, phone books, magazines, newspapers, pictures, and books than ever! And all of my work (I work at home) has to be printed and kept for 5 years! Yikes!!! That’s thousands of hard copy order copies each year I have to save. I can’t see that is getting better – it’s getting worse for our household – we are drowning in paper.

By: McSwain

McSwain — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 06:08:12 +0000

Paperless would be nice, but I don’t think it’s around the corner. In fact, it seems that there is even MORE paper than there used to be, as people use technology to create even MORE documents.

I worked for a city that touted a new bookkeeping program as being “paperless.” Then they made us print a bajillion copies of even more things than we had before. Paperless. Yeah, right.

I will throw a party the day the piles of paper disappear from my house.

By: Doc

Doc — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 03:02:08 +0000

We will see a paperless office the day we see a paperless bathroom. As for my phone book, the one ten feet behind me doesn’t get used a lot (but it does get used when the internet goes down, gets confused, or, in the case of a doctor my wife was looking for yesterday, doesn’t even come close to being useful). The phonebook in the car, however, gets used a lot and I rather enjoy it when I can beat the geek in the back seat with an iPhone. I love technology when it works. But it works for me not the other way around. Besides, low tech/no tech always works.

By: Katie

Katie — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:32:11 +0000

My favorite books get to live in the house. Airport reading lives in the ebook reader. Everything else lives at the library! (Or… that’s the idea, anyway. It might take a year or two to implement.)

Hard copies of contact info for utilities companies, home repair services, etc., are really important to have around if you live in a spot with a chance of natural disaster. We keep one hard copy phonebook next to our one non-portable landline phone, and we have contact info for all the utilities services handy in our housebook. There’s nothing worse than being completely without information in a situation where you need some.

By: Avlor

Avlor — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:03:49 +0000

@ Craig
Isn’t there a big difference between paperless and bookless? Books are treasures and are given space in my home. Papers are clutter and take up too much space in my home. Yes some are going digital with books – but not everyone will.

By: Craig

Craig — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:12:57 +0000

I love our library crammed full of real books.

Anyone who would scan books and then pile them into a shed should be sent to a galaxy far, far away.

We are shredding old outdated documents and statements, but that’s as far as we’re going. Our shredder is now downstairs, under our kitchen table, close to the trash can.

But we are not giving up our books. Not now, not ever. Giving up your books is akin to giving up your soul.

I am not doing that.