It's 2010, it's the future. We don't have flying cars or jet packs, it turns out video phones aren't as cool as we thought they'd be. So what can I do to make my present into the future I thought it would be. I've decided to focus on "Jetson-ifying" my life. First up, going paperless in 2010.
Its time for a few confessions about some hard facts.
One, I don't have a filing system in the real world. Two, I have a predilection towards being a pack rat. These two facts have combined to create a mountian of paper that I will deal with... someday.
I mean we're talking about garbage bags and boxes and totes filled with every piece of paper that seemed even remotely important, and a bunch that just got swept up in one of a thousand office "cleanings".
I've been harboring a fantasy that one day, I'd be able to lay it all out and get it all sorted, but with the schedule I keep and the job I have, weeks of concentrated time in a single location just ain't gonna happen. I need to be able to take the paper with me, so I can organize it on the road.
I had the idea while shooting newspaper clippings for my documentary, The Truth About Elvis that using my still camera as a high speed scanner might be a quick way to deal with my mountian of paper. If I could take pictures of the paper, I could sort it electronically anywhere, anytime. I have a lot of international travel planned this year, so perhaps I can file receipts at 30,000 feet over the pacific ocean.
To make this work, I'm going to need a system, I must address:
Shooting and cropping the documents
- Storing the scans
- OCR
- Organization
- Long term system
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