want to get Getting rid of paper in your life is easy. It’s hard to keep a promise you make to yourself.
I’ve been mostly paperless for about 15 years, and the trick for me was to think about it the same way I think about taking care of my teeth.
Being organized is a type of cleanliness. This is almost never a one-time cleaning job. So think about dental hygiene. We learn to brush our teeth twice a day, floss once a day, and visit the dentist every six months so that problems can be caught before they get worse. However, if you don’t follow that schedule exactly, you can still achieve good dental hygiene. you just have to SufficientIf you do almost everything you should, but you miss two days of flossing or delay your next cleaning by a few months, your teeth won’t suddenly fall out,
When it comes to cleanliness (or any type of maintenance), you don’t have to be perfect; You just have to be good enough.
Going paperless is much the same. Here, I want to share with you the plan I used to eliminate most of the paper from my life. This should help you get started, but know in advance that you don’t have to stick to it every moment of every day. You can mess up. You can forget. as long as you get used to it most of Over time, you will find yourself mostly Paperless in a few months.
9 steps to go paperless
Decide where to keep the digitized documents. A natural option is to save them to a cloud storage service, such as Dropbox, iCloud, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, etc. By saving them to a cloud storage service, you always have a backup. If you save files locally on your device, you may lose them all if your device is destroyed, lost, or stolen.
Create an inbox. Inbox is nothing more than a folder where you will save newly scanned papers by default. If you’re highly organized, you may have specific folders where you want to sort each paper you scan. This is very good. But where will the files go when you feel lazy or short on time? By creating an inbox, you have a catch-all place where scanned files stay until you’re able to sort them.
Pick a scanning app, and don’t think too much about it. At this time, most scanning apps are perfect for digitizing paper. (Scanning photos is a different story and requires a specialized app or scanner.) If your cloud storage service has a mobile app, chances are the app has a built-in scanner. use that. For example, the included Dropbox app works great. It turns your phone’s camera into a scanner, with auto focus, auto edge-detection, cropping tools, and everything you’d want in a basic scanner.