Month: July 2021

I’m kinda feeling like writing a blog post.

Well that rarely happens…

About 2 years ago I decided to simplify and optimze my life
and thought about how to get rid of my giant pile of unsorted documents.
I took my phone, scanned every piece of paper and destroyed nearly everything.
It took me about 6 months to get rid of all the paperwork and documents.
The only thing remaining was very thin pile of paper with important documents.
I didn’t have to think much about storage and backup since I already got a Synology.
So I just access all my Documents through Synology Drive.
My Plan is to reduce Paperwork and get rid of Paper in general entirely and
as much as possible. I’m aware there are various tools out there that would be better suited
for a paperless office but I’m quite happy with the native Synology Apps,
like Notes, Drive and Calendar. It does everything I want and I have everything
in one place.
Additionally I opened an account with Caya, which is a Scan-Service for your physical Mail.
So basically I made sure that no paper would enter my appartment, while I was getting rid
of what was left.
If you have verything in the cloud and can sift through things on your phone,
you can do your Paperwork on the train or on the couch.
This has the positive effect that you can check off things as soon they arise.
I’m always on top of my todo-list.
In my opinion a scan service is worth the few extra bucks.
The only downside ist that, if you need the originals of somnething, it costs
you an extra 5 bucks to send it to your address. But that happens very rarely.
Seriously going full digital is so worth it.
10/10 would do again.