Projects- Electronic vs. hard-copy
The longer time goes on, the more electronic I am becoming in my project management...Nirvana (obviously), Evernote (reference), on-line document access. The problem I have is that for some projects, I am finding myself having to manage some of the projects partially on-line and partially hard-copy, which is quite tedious. (I do property management, so there are contracts/leases/applications and such that have manual signatures. Does anyone have any advice on how to best handle this, without losing track of what documentation is where? My preference is to become virtual wherever possible...but I am assuming that means scanning/saving everything on-line???? Thoughts? HELP!
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2 Posted by Proximo on 15 Jun, 2010 01:47 AM
I keep a healthy dose of documents in my manual filling system and group them easily by project.
I created a manual file system the way David Allen describes and it lives nicely with my Digital System as well.
I also have some projects with information in Nirvana and some in my physical file system.
GTD is about a system you can trust and does not have to be all in one place. Digital plus Hard copy is perfectly fine.
Here is a sneak peak into my GTD setup at the office. I am about to upgrade this with some cool new hardware soon, but 95% of it will stay the same.
http://picasaweb.google.com/damian.cast/ProximoSGTDOffice?feat=dire...
3 Posted by candeshouse on 15 Jun, 2010 12:59 PM
OK...that makes sense to me...I think it is more my personality of trying to make it one or the other (simple), but the reality of it is that it can still be simple while also being is 2 places at once.
Thanks
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Chris
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4 Posted by Proximo on 15 Jun, 2010 01:21 PM
I am all about simplicity but it's almost impossible to get rid of actual paper. Maybe in the future everything will be digital but it's not a reality today for most of us.
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