Being the last working day of the year yesterday, I decided to purge my filing cabinet — I have a four-drawer in my office. Two hours later, I had not only purged it, I had emptied it! Lots of invoices and such dating back to 1995, and all old, went in the recycle bin. Lots of glossy brochures for now-dated equipment went in the regular bin. Untold and embarrassing amounts of prints from the web — pdfs or web pages — yep, into the recycle bin. Out of four drawers, I found just three documents that needed to be “kept” — these I scanned and then recycled. Everything else was either redundant, copies of someone else’s docs, or available online.
So I am now running a completely (almost) paperless office!
Next year, I vow that i will remain “paperless”, to the extent the rest of the world allows.
No more printing and filing things available on the web — these will be bookmarked on del.iciio.us if necessary.
Anything sent to me that needs preserving will be scanned and filed on disk. Anything else will be read (maybe) and recycled.
Anything emailed to me will be read on the laptop.
NO MORE PAPER! Woo!
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