Anyone going totally digital with documents?

[sojourner753]

I know documents are probably a stretch to define as digital media, but I figured this is still a good place to pose the question.

I wonder if anyone has made the step to manage their documents digitally?

Generally if I receive a document digitally, then usually it stays digital. And I use a PDF generator to make others digital rather than print to paper.

But my question really pertains to that next step. Meaning taking a hard copy and scanning it for storage.

Often I'm away from home and some company that I deal with needs me to fax some document to them. Well that means I have to go home, get the document, fire up my aging fax machine and send it out.

Currently I'm subsribed to myFax.com and if if was already digital, then I could simply upload it and send it on its way.

So, has anyone made the digital transition? Or is anyone in the process of doing so?

How are you going about it? What are you thoughts?

thanks

[Jason Dunn]

I've tried to do this off and on, but I've found that my accountant, and really any other professional type, really likes to have a paper trail, and ultimately it all gets printed out anyway. :-( I think we're probably 20 years from being able to realistically do this.

[sojourner753]

I've tried to do this off and on, but I've found that my accountant, and really any other professional type, really likes to have a paper trail, and ultimately it all gets printed out anyway. :-( I think we're probably 20 years from being able to realistically do this.

Yeah, thats about that way I see it too. There have been so many times that someone would call me at work and need me to fax them something.

I just keep thinking that if I had a digital copy, then I could send it through my myFax.com account and have it there. Normally I have wait till I get home, then struggle with my old fax machine.

[ctmagnus]

There's no reason you can't go digital, and then rub everyone else's nose in it when their mountains of paper come tumbling down on them. ;)

I try to do everything as digitally as possible, but every once in a while I encounter a situation where something needs to go hardcopy for whatever reason. In those situations, it pays to have a good, cheap all-in-one mfd printer/scanner/fax.