If I need to look at the statement, I can log into the service website. Instead, I generally get an email telling me that a statement is available. Doing this means I am never mailed paper in the first place. To eliminate paper, I did things like sign up for electronic statements and billing for all of the services I use, banks, utilities, insurance, mortgage, etc. Where it wasn’t possible, digitize any new documents and then get rid of the paper version.Instead, I decided that I would try a two-pronged approach: I access them infrequently enough to where the labor effort wouldn’t justify the benefit. That is, I decided at the outset not to go to my existing files and digitize all of them. I planned to start my new paperless life beginning with any new paper this year. The scope of my paperless effort (so far) I also outline how far I’ve managed to get in the first 8 months of the year, what challenges I’ve had, and the lessons I’ve learned along the way. What follows is how I have used Evernote and other tools to go paperless this year. Most importantly, perhaps, Evernote has a solid iPad and iPhone app that make capturing information and accessing your data from these devices easy. Evernote’s basic service is available for free, but I have been using their premium service (which gives you unlimited storage as well as a number of additional features) for quite a while now.
The notes are stored in the cloud and are therefore accessible from anywhere you have an Internet connection. For those who don’t know, Evernote is an application that allows you to “remember everything.” In its simplest form, it allows you to capture notes and organize them. I don’t know if my efforts to go paperless would have been possible without Evernote. Furthermore, they need to be archived and backed up. And those digital versions need to be stores, organized and easily searchable for it to work. Going paperless requires replacing paper with digital versions of documents, notes, etc. It takes a concerted effort, but one that I think has already started to pay dividends.
As I have discovered, this is not as easy as just dumping all paper. One of my goals for 2011 was to go paperless at home.
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