This afternoon was kind of lazy and rainy, and I found myself sifting through stacks of CD cases again, full of enthusiasm as I discovered some lost Rolling Stones and David Bowie albums, imagining how few discs remained before I could declare victory. But then I stumbled across a huge cache of classical music discs [...]

Work flow is inherent in the kind of work that we do when scanning, indexing, searching, filing, tagging, and backing up all of our documents, photos, music, and video. Once you are committed to digital media, you will find that you often need to cobble together different programs in order to do away with some of the tedious manual labor.

As soon as you begin storing your paper life on your computer, you are faced with the question of how to name your files. If you carefully select one system and stick with it, your entire document workflow will improve. Here are some thoughts to consider, and a suggestion or two.

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. [...]

A brief look at five minutes of my day, where I was able to take advantage of my paperless workflow, and get the auto registration taken care of in the bargain. This is the kind of moment that makes me smile a little.

Before you shred your first sheet, you must have a solid data backup plan. What would you do if your hard drive started the “click of death” the day after you destroyed the original documents?
This is the first of many articles regarding backups.