Jim Robinson over at Money Talks News has put together a nice article giving five basic steps for getting a jump start on your paperless life.
Among other things he discusses options for prioritizing and cutting down on the total volume of stuff you plan on keeping, digital or otherwise.
“Backup, backup, backup” made number four on [...]

Recently I have been mulling over the possibility of commuting to New York—owing to a hazy future at my current employer. Whether or not I am ready to trudge there and back every day of the week is still an open question, but the siren song of the city has its draw.
With such a fine [...]

Some decades ago, when I was in high school, I somehow managed to get my hands on a copy of The Anarchist Cookbook. For a teenager in a society before the Internet, this was a fascinating read, though tame by today’s standards.
I never really considered that this book might raise eyebrows until some years later [...]

I have always been a big fan of HowStuffWorks, with their detailed in-depth articles describing such disparate topics as manual transmissions and money laundering.
Anyway, author Diane Dannenfeldt has written a lengthy article on How Paperless Offices Work, giving ample coverage to myriad aspects of the topic:

Introduction to How Paperless Offices Work
Benefits of a Paperless Office
Transitioning [...]

The basic tool required to bridge the gap between the carbon-intensive paper document present and the greener electronic document future was invented in 1993 as a way to streamline communications between publishers and printers.
Today, the humble PDF file is the file format of choice for “final” electronic documents. Properly created and deployed, PDF alone serves [...]

23 tips for getting organized, streamlining your online time, managing your media and more
In this Computerworld article, the writer gives several great tips on getting your geeky side in order. I’m happy to note that procurement of a Fujitsu ScanSnap and scanning your life to PDF made number 4 on his list.
Other useful tips include [...]

Anyone who has kids in their home worries about how easy it is to access the seamier side of the Internet, even if by accident. Indeed, it is thrust upon us in our email in-boxes daily in the form of misspelled spam with links that only a fool would click.
Another issue altogether is the spam [...]

“How a lifestyle experiment and a disaster made me realize the value of turning atoms into bits” — Mike Elgin

A couple of months back, Mike Elgin of Computerworld posted an article on his foray into the paperless world: Paperless office? Ha! How about a paperless life?
In this followup article, he considers how lifestyle changes and the raging [...]

Do you ever send documents to other people that might have … sensitive information embedded in them?
Not everyone who works with documents in the home will run into this problem, but sooner or later you are probably going to find yourself in a situation where you would like to email someone a useful document that [...]

Even in a paperless home we occasionally need to print something. Why put up with all of the aggravation that comes with the care and feeding of a printer when there are so many other options available?