Greetings everyone,
Ah, December. It is time when things start getting insane due to the holidays, but also insane because it is the time that we start thinking (or feeling guilty because we know we should be thinking) about goals and changes for next year.
What are you looking to get started on in 2012?
Speaking of 2012. I've decided to go to MacWorld (renamed Macworld|iWorld) again in 2012. The 2011 event was my first time, and I expect this year will be great as well. If you're going too, it'd be fun to say hi.
For the second week in a row, today's tip (see below for that) comes from an Evernote-related source, but has nothing to do with Evernote itself. It is one of those things that we probably should know, but often forget (guilty as charged here).
Updates
- Last year, the Productive Macs bundle was very popular, so I thought I'd let you know about it again. $264 worth of productivity-focused Mac applications for $39.99. Of the apps this year, Default Folder X, Tags, and Launchbar could make your paperless workflow crazy-productive. Click here to see all the apps.
- A popular series on DocumentSnap is the Paperless Reader Stories. I'd love to collect some more stories, so if you are interested in sharing either how you have gone paperless, or what you are doing to try to go paperless, see this post. Thanks for your contributions!
Tip: Focus On What Makes Things Better
If you're not familiar with Quora, it is a question-and-answer site. I was skimming this question Can Evernote be used as a simple personal CRM tool? with not-very-great interest. I like Evernote, but using it as a Customer Relationship Management tool is not one of my uses.
However, I loved this answer by Ecquire founder Tal Raviv, partially excerpted here (bold his):
Of course the tool you choose is only 5% of what makes a CRM successful - so the other answers debating whether Evernote will work or not are less important than the real question: is it easy for you to use, will it work for you, and will it allow you to spend more time interacting with customers rather than muck around in a database?
While this is referring to Evernote as a CRM, I think this mindset applies particularly well to going paperless.
Remember, the point of all this is so that you don't need to be messing around with your paperless system. The point is so that you can get back to doing whatever it is that your piles of paper were preventing you from doing.
Any time you are thinking of doing something, ask yourself the question: "will this make my life easier?" If not, it is probably time to simplify.
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