Jott Blog

How paperless are you?

April 22, 2008

paper

In honor of Earth Day, I thought I’d bring of the subject of a paperless life. There has been a great deal of talk about going paperless for a while, whether at home or at the office.

I try my best to use as little paper as possible- I use my Jott list instead of a hipster PDA, cloth napkins instead of paper ones, and pay my bills online in lieu of receiving them in the mail. However, I can’t say I’m totally paperless. My biggest offense being that I have to print out all the newsletters and releases and such I send out to edit them. Try though I may I just cannot do a good job of that on a computer screen. Till the day I can actually scribble on a monitor I can hold in my hand to replicate that tactile experience- it’s printing out the first draft for me.

Are there technologies out there that make going paperless easy for you? Or do you still rely on all things paper to manage your day-to-day?

1 Comment »

  1. ~I frequently correct my papers (and a newsletter I managed for a local non-profit) on my tablet PC.
    ~Because I pay all my bills online, instead of keeping copies of bills and payment receipts, I use the label “High Finance” in Gmail and archive all correspondence related to money. Once a year or so I go through the archives and decide what I need to keep.
    ~I hound my professors if they don’t use “Blackboard”, “WebCT”, or similar online means to distribute the syllabus, handouts, etc. I’ve convinced at least one professor to quit handing out any paper at all! Well, except those pesky tests…

    Comment by pdxwoman — April 28, 2008 @ 8:43 am

RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URL

Leave a comment