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Any suggestions on going paperless at home?

We’ve been hearing the promise of the “paperless office” for more than 30 years, but few of us have taken the time that it takes to make the transition.

The good news is that going paperless at home is a lot less complex than doing so in a business.

Going completely paperless isn’t realistic, but going less-paper is entirely feasible with today’s various options. device with a decent document feeder.

You’ll also want one that can scan both sides of the document (duplex scanning) and wireless is a nice option for flexibility in where you can use it.

Fujitsu has long been a leader in high-quality scanners that will hold up to the workload that “going paperless” will demand, but less expensive options are available from companies like Brother, Epson, Neat and Doxie.

The best way to stay on top of this new task is to have a physical ‘inbox’ next to your scanner where all your important papers get staged for scanning.

The single most important decision you’ll have to make is which electronic filing system you’ll use.

If you don’t create a solid filing, naming and tagging system, you’ll end up with a mountain of scanned documents that will be nearly impossible to search through.

Most document scanners have direct support to automatically send documents to Dropbox and Evernote or others like Doxie and Neat offer their own integrated filing software.

Evernote provides a lot of flexibility for managing the documents and since it automatically converts everything to a searchable standard, it makes finding documents based on keywords much easier down the road.