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Why Evernote is the vehicle for my paperless journey

Even in today’s digital world, going paperless is no mean feat, but then why would you want to? Sure, there’s some security in knowing that something’s written (or printed) in black and white, but can you find it when you need to refer to it years from now. What about all the space it takes up in your home and office? And what do you do should your kids/pets/pests decide to convert your paperwork into artwork/confetti/bedding? Hope you’ve made a copy and stored that somewhere else.

There’s plenty which can be done to get rid of some of the paper load and having a decent place to store digital versions of these bits of paper is essential to the cause, but it’s a quite a big ask. In this post, I explain why Evernote is my platform of choice for my paperless journey.

Zone Diet inspired meal

A healthier diet and a slimmer me

You know when you’re young and you think you’re invincible? Well, I always used to think I’d never be at risk of being considered overweight, but with my waistline slowly climbing to 36 inches and with a history of diabetes in the family I decided it was time to take action before my hand was forced.

New blog, new start

For a while, I’ve been pondering over the platform on which I could start blogging again, but with the seemingly endless choices available I was somewhat stifled by analysis paralysis.

Twitter’s great, but 140 characters is simply too limiting for my needs.  Facebook is something I use to connect with family and friends so it’s not the right audience.  Tumblr’s cool, but it’s been too flakey for my liking and I have a real wariness about trusting my content with ‘free’ service providers.  Google Plus is really taking off, seems to have great potential and undoubtedly SEO benefits, but aside from the ownership thing I feel like anything posted has a very short shelf life as posts seem to very quickly move further down the page.  I’d also considered other options, but after dismissing the big players I decided a self-hosted blog was the best way forward.

Blogging.  It’s so 2000.  Or is it?  As time’s gone on, I’ve noticed a shift in activity with some bloggers I’d followed gradually moving away from lengthier, considered blog posts to spur of the moment microblogs and status updates.  Whilst I’m going to continue to use social media it’s not going to provide the content platform that a WordPress installation with a nice, fresh theme can.  Also, this website can act as the glue to bind together a lot of the content I post elsewhere.  Twitter, Flickr, Instagram.  I can use them all to add trimmings to the main content I’m going to be serving up and they can help to keep the site from stagnating.

To be honest, I’m not entirely sure who’s going to follow my ramblings here given my intention is to write about a variety of topics.  Aside from gaining stranger visits via search engines and inbound links, I wonder if this will provide an opportunity for deeper discussion with existing contacts.  I guess time will tell.