Question from a reader... Do I still think that going paperless on my personal finances is a good idea?
Answer: oh, hell yes! I've now got nearly 300 documents scanned, stored, and indexed. It takes very little effort to do this – less effort, in fact, than storing them in a file cabinet with any sort of organization. Best of all, still, is the fact that I can search them just like I can google the web. I find myself now routinely referring to receipts and other records, where before I did so only as an absolute last resort – because it meant manually searching through piles of paper. Another benefit I hadn't really appreciated before actually doing this: my records are now all backed up offsite, into the cloud...
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