 Welcome to The Journey. Today, we're gonna talk about the five must-have tools to create a paperless office. It was to accept paper, unless it's money. Woo! You did it on me! So paper is wildly inefficient. It's not searchable. It's so cumbersome. You know, you're trying to find a receipt for maybe 18 months ago that you have no idea. Yeah, good luck. So definitely going green, paperless is the way to go. That's one of the things we can't receive, so I love when we travel for work. It's everything's digital. So, yeah, sure. Get the receipt, take a photo, get rid of that, and it's there, organized. I don't have to worry about losing it again. Very efficient. And I like it when people, actually, some businesses text message the receipt to me, because I always have a digital version that I can refer back to later. Even my farmers market does that because they use Square App. So it's like, hey, don't have to have this exchange at all. Digital world. So many people are going paperless now. Yeah, so even when I go to the grocery, I used to jot down toilet paper, avocados on a piece of paper, et cetera, and stuff to my pocket. But now, no way. Done with that. It's on my iPhone. iPhone notes. Go to the grocery. I just have this constant grocery list that I update, delete, update. That's not convenient. Yeah, very convenient, paperless, efficient, better for the environment. Also, when it comes to recipes, I made a vegan chili last week. And sometimes, think about it, you don't want your computer around the cooking. Not a good idea. Yeah, you could just try it. Disaster way now. But that's where tablets have come in handy. I use my tablets all the time in the kitchen and just set it up. Pop it up. I'm not printing off the recipes anymore like I used to online. Find that good vegan chili, print it out. No, I'm saving trees and I'm making some pretty good vegan chili. So what you're saying is next time I see you, I'm getting some vegan chili. Yeah, plant-based all the way. So Emma, what are some benefits of actually going paperless? Yeah, so weighing the benefits because there's like pros and cons to everything as you know. Some benefits that come to mind right away is increased productivity. Like when I was talking about the receipts, the work receipts. Don't have to waste all the time looking for them. Yeah, you don't have to like find it or take the risk of losing them. They're digitally there on one place in my phone. Along with increased productivity, there's also employee flexibility. Oh, and just saving money, cost savings as well. She does like that kind of paper. I'm so frugal. But some of the disadvantages could be higher costs in the beginning to get all this up and running, upgrading some equipment and even some compatibility with applications. True. So great points, Sam. But here are five ways to go paperless. Starting with tool number one, DocuSign. Have you ever used DocuSign? I've used it all the time. It saves my signature. I love that. It's also, you have to go through Adobe Reader. So it makes it extra legit. Legally binding. Legally binding. And on top of that, it works on all browsers and devices. I've even done that using my cell phone. Signing a document. On your phone, on your tablet, on your laptop. So second, Evernote Scannable App. Oh, you love this. It can be very beneficial, especially if you're a networker like myself. You can scan a business card and it goes directly into the app. It's all the relevant business information. But also, you can use that app to actually send your LinkedIn information off to another prospective networker. So, Emma, have you ever heard of IFTTT? Oh, yeah. It's fun to tango together. Yes, it is. But that's not what that was. But how do you tango? It's like, what was that? If this, then that. If this, then what? It's a workflow automation tool. So say you scan business cards like we just talked about. If you have something set up to where after that action is taken, another action is done. Say emails, or it saves in a directory in whatever device you're using. I also heard that it's compatible with voice assistants. So you're Alexa, Google Home, Cortana. Number four, Microsoft Drive, Google Drive and Dropbox. These are super rad because I do. I use them all the time. And you can access them on the go and with your team. So like for me, I'm in San Diego and my team's in Austin. And we're constantly collaborating on the same projects. But with Google Drive, we have a lot of our docs there that we edit, whether it's slides or Word docs or Excel. And we can all chime in, comment, edit. And what's also great is a lot of documents take up a ton of space, which when you think about the paperless world, instead of a ton of paper on your desk, you're putting this all online, like a cloud-based storage. And you don't have to put all that on your computer, taking away all that space. Oh, that as well. Yes, that's a good point. I'm constantly running out of storage. It drives these guys nuts. I finally got a new phone because of it. But yes, I know. I can actually take a phone out. And last but not least, Evernote, a phenomenal app. I use it every day. I have my to-do list. You can just jot down notes. And it's also on browsers. I mean, you can just have this anywhere. So the bottom line, go paperless. It's going to clean up your desk, which if you're like me, I spent way too much money on my desk and it's a piece of art and it looks way better when there's not a ton of paper all over it. But it also cuts down on operating costs. All right, that's a wrap. You just learned five must-have tools to have a paperless office. Make sure that you like, comment, and subscribe. Also, be sure to ring that bell so you're the first to know when our next video comes out. This is A Journey. 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