Paperless

I successfully got through the day without printing anything. Not because I didn't have anything to do, but because more tools are becoming available that eradicate the need to print.

For instance most of the documents that I receive are in the form of a PDF.  That makes it easy to open the document on my computer, make my own notes using the note tools made available by Adobe and save for later retrieval. And using a laptop makes it easy to bring those saved PDFs into meetings without having to print out paper copies. The added benefit of carrying my laptop to meetings is being able to check people's calendars, search documents to answer questions that come up rather than having to table them until after the meeting and sending out follow up emails before leaving the conference room. So it has become common in my experience that most of the room have their laptops in front of them, instead of a pen and paper.

The nice warm fuzzy from all this change is that we are hopefully helping out the environment by reducing our paper consumption. But the bottom line gets a boost too! Paper and toner ain't cheap. So Viva Le PDF,  Le Laptop and the trees! :-)