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It is still February and I think many of us made the resolution to “be more organized” for 2010. Organizing your personal information is important, of course, but we’ll address your business documentation here. However, many of these services and tips will work for home!
Pixily is a service a friend of mine has signed up for. There are a variety of plans but I’ll tell you about the one she signed up for because she is a solopreneur without tons of paperwork to deal with. Pixily is a document scanning service that lets you send in your paperwork and they will scan and store it for you and then send the hard copies back. For $14.95 they will scan and store 50 pages which includes a prepaid mailer and return mail. Monthly storage for up to 1000 of these scanned pages is $4.95. So, she is having them scan ALL of her existing necessary paperwork and store it. If she needs more than the initial $14.95 she will request another envelope. Then she can access anything she needs from “the cloud”.
Some of you will have concerns about privacy and safety of the hard copies. She isn’t sending anything like a birth certificate or other crucial documents and isn’t worried about the other stuff. She wants that pile of paper GONE and doesn’t have the time to scan it on her flat-bed scanner.
Google’s new “Gdrive”. It isn’t really called this but a little advertised new Google feature that is rolling out over the next several weeks will allow you to store a ton of stuff on Google Docs. Not just documents but music, photos and more. You can read about it in detail here but if you are looking for an incredibly affordable offline storage site, this might be the spot for you. You get 1GB of storage free (if you convert documents into Google Docs formats it is unlimited) and then it is 25 CENTS per Gigabyte per year. This means 20GB for $5 per year(remember when computer hard drives were 1GB?)! Individual files need to be 250MB or less.
Finally for an ongoing resource for all things organization, head over to Unclutterer.com (prepared to spend awhile at first because there is a lot going on). There are great categories like Paper, Workspace of the Week and Cable Clutter to get you started. The site has a very active forum, as well, where you can connect with other people for suggestions and input on your particular organizational demon.
Photo courtesy of Unclutterer
It is still February and I think many of us made the resolution to “be more organized” for 2010. Organizing your personal information is important, of course, but we’ll address your business documentation here. However, many of these services and tips will work for home!
Pixily is a service a friend of mine has signed up for. There are a variety of plans but I’ll tell you about the one she signed up for because she is a solopreneur without tons of paperwork to deal with. Pixily is a document scanning service that lets you send in your paperwork and they will scan and store it for you and then send the hard copies back. For $14.95 they will scan and store 50 pages which includes a prepaid mailer and return mail. Monthly storage for up to 1000 of these scanned pages is $4.95. So, she is having them scan ALL of her existing necessary paperwork and store it. If she needs more than the initial $14.95 she will request another envelope. Then she can access anything she needs from “the cloud”.
Some of you will have concerns about privacy and safety of the hard copies. She isn’t sending anything like a birth certificate or other crucial documents and isn’t worried about the other stuff. She wants that pile of paper GONE and doesn’t have the time to scan it on her flat-bed scanner.
Google’s new “Gdrive”. It isn’t really called this but a little advertised new Google feature that is rolling out over the next several weeks will allow you to store a ton of stuff on Google Docs. Not just documents but music, photos and more. You can read about it in detail here but if you are looking for an incredibly affordable offline storage site, this might be the spot for you. You get 1GB of storage free (if you convert documents into Google Docs formats it is unlimited) and then it is 25 CENTS per Gigabyte per year. This means 20GB for $5 per year(remember when computer hard drives were 1GB?)! Individual files need to be 250MB or less.
Finally for an ongoing resource for all things organization, head over to Unclutterer.com (prepared to spend awhile at first because there is a lot going on). There are great categories like Paper, Workspace of the Week and Cable Clutter to get you started. The site has a very active forum, as well, where you can connect with other people for suggestions and input on your particular organizational demon.
Photo courtesy of Unclutterer
