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 [...]

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?

Paperless office? Ha! How about a paperless life? “Is it possible to make everything digital? Is it desirable?” In this article, columnist Mike Elgin describes his attempts at going paperless and the bumps he encountered along the way. He discusses several products he has used, including Evernote, Shoeboxed, Earth Class Mail, reQall, and the new [...]

From time to time I catch myself focusing on dealing with paper after it is in my home, rather than finding ways to slow the flow. Here’s an interesting list of general greenness, reducing the total amount of paper in the home: 19 Tips to go Paperless at Home I like the ideas in Julie’s [...]

Brad Templeton recently posted his idea of how all of our manuals and documentation should be easily downloadable from a reliable site based on the UPC of the product. Since not all companies last forever, a sort of online escrow repository would make things even better. See: Going paperless by making manuals easier to find I [...]

I was just reading an article entitled Backup Basics — Or, How to Avoid Using Data Recovery Services! from Dr. Greg Mulhauser’s site. He followed this up with a second article: One Example of a (Hopefully!) Sound Backup Strategy. From the original article: What would you do if all your practice data suddenly disappeared? Data recovery services exist to [...]

Just wanted to share the article from Macworld that gave me my original inspiration to quit nibbling ’round the edges of the home paperwork mess and get serious, with the right hardware, software, and workflow. The real paperless office A couple of months back, the author, Joe Kissel, wrote a followup article to the original. [...]