115 How To Go Paperless

This episode is about how to go paperless and what the benefits are. Topics covered include:

• How accumulating paper limits your flexibility and freedom 
• Simple steps to reduce the paper you accumulate such as using e-billing and e-books.
• Ways to minimise the paper books you own, such as selling them as soon as you have read them
• Key tools for digitizing your paper and going paperless: a multipage scanner (such as the Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300i), a shredder and Evernote
• Keeping labelling and metadata simple: the three key attributes of date, location and person/organisation
• Options about where to store digital data: secure encrypted drives vs services like Evernote
• What to scan and what to simply delete.