So if you were reading part 1 of my post, you’d remember that I ended proceedings with the ‘cliff-hanger’ statement that over the past few months I’ve harboured some ‘immoral’ paper-esque feelings that contradict my quest to operate 100% paperlessly Aghast! Horror! Shock!
Well firstly I should make it clear that unlike Jason I wouldn’t say that ‘scribbling away with my stylus has lost some of its flare and pizzazz.’ Thankfully I still experience that exact same ‘feel good’ buzz that I did on Day #1
so I’m thankful for that. However it’s the change to my course
structure at university that has mainly resulted in me finding less of
a necessity to continually scribe via digital ink. My degree course, as
mentioned briefly in a previous post,
is now more seminar based and consequently contains less lectures.
Additionally my scheduled classes are significantly less in number than
they were before leaving me more self guided and mobile which has had a
significant impact on the way I operate.
So specifically what are the detrimental feelings that have evolved over the past few months and why?
Continue reading "Priorities CAN dent the quest for personal paperless nirvana: Part 2" »

Paperless aficionado and MindManager supremo Jason Dorko recently scribed a thought provoking piece about his diminishing need to use his TabletPC (or rather his TabletPC in tablet mode) as his sole productivity ‘workhorse.’ Alternately, in order to maximise his efficiency, Jason now adopts a more prudent ‘make the tool(s) fit the job’ rather than the ‘job fitting the tool(s)’ ethos and a knock on effect of this has lead him to focus on a less stringent paperless lifestyle.
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Ben Watson, Group Manager for Adobe’s Developer Relations Team, has posted a great article on his blog IMHO about the environmental damage (in terms of tree cost) caused by society’s insistence on printing everything.
Ben eloquently concludes, after extensive Google based research and some nifty maths work :o), that ubiquitous printer use has “nothing to do with technology preference, choice or anything like that. It is still all about lifestyle, choices, safe thinking and preservation of ritual”
It’s that last bit - ‘preservation of ritual’ that strikes the biggest chord with me. I’ve always thought that one of the biggest obstacles for any
organisation aiming for paperless operation was those stubborn
individuals who stick by their ‘that’s the way it’s always been done’
ethos and never ever move to a more paper friendly computerised
operation (the more aged universities are notorious for this). Ben
however highlights another group of people – those who have moved to
using computers but seem to take comfort in exercising nostalgic
preservation by printing copies of everything electronic.
Continue reading "The environmental cost of CTRL-P?" »
Michael over at pigpog,com, recently upped an article discussing why he considers paper to be a more productive medium than an electronic alternative. It’s a thought provoking article as he gives a number of good reasons for sticking with paper. However as a paperless advocate I consider it my duty to respond to the points Michael has made and also provide a few reasons why I think a paperless option can be more beneficial in increasing productivity.
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