You don't realize how much inefficiency is caused by paperwork until you begin going 'electronic.'
Shuffling, finding, moving, sorting, combining, retrieving, transporting, storing and removing are just a few of the actions that are significantly simplified when information is processed electronically.
It is not just the large corporations that are capable of converting transactions and information to bits and bytes. If it comes to you in electronic form (eMail, wwWeb, Fax) leave it there. Process and store it electronically. If it comes to you on paper convert (scan, key into database) it to an electronic format.
Data in electronic form can be stored in databases or in regular computer devices. From there it can be edited, distributed, shared and retrieved in many different formats.
Of course, the more reliance you have on electronic devices, commensurate diligence should be applied to your back-up systems.
For someone who has been an inveterate paper saver and accustomed to treating my plentiful file drawers as soothers, it has been a struggle weaning myself from my beloved paper.
Being surrounded by young computer-literates, there are daily lessons. Enough to be convinced that documentation on pieces of paper is an extremely inefficient manner of communicating my thoughts to myself and to others. Enough to change the paper-bound habits of the past.
Instead, I require many more lessons until I reduce my hard-copy dependency to current efficiency standards.
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