PAPERLESS OFFICE APPS OFFLINE

Well, I think the Moleskine notebooks are pretty cool, but not cool enough to overcome my paperless tendencies. I know a lot of people, especially writers, who have one of the various sizes of Moleskine notebooks, which are handy for scribbling down ideas, sketches, and other items. I take notes for meeting and research using Evernote, but when I write fiction or nonfiction in my iPad, I use iaWriter. When I proofread one of my own stories or I’m reading a story for comment for a writer friend, those get sent to the Kindle App, instead of being printed out. Other magazines get read using the Zinio App. Books and a lot of magazines get read on the Kindle App. I also read nearly everything on my iPad.

PAPERLESS OFFICE APPS OFFLINE

The notebooks I work with most frequently are setup to be offline notebooks so that I can work with the notes even if I don’t have a network connection. Of course, I make heavy use of the Evernote app for iOS. I put this item in the middle and made it the first item in my list because it forms the center of my mobile paperless office. Starting in the center, and then working our way around clockwise (numbers below are keyed to the numbers in the picture): 1. iPad 2 So here is what this paperless writer’s mobile office looks like: I think when people see “writer” the natural inclination is to associate it with paper–be it in the form of bestselling books, or crumbled sheets of pain and misery in the waste bin. So, rather than spend this week’s post providing step-by-step tips, I thought I’d use it to illustrate the result of trying to live a paperless lifestyle as a freelance science fiction writer and blogger. And yet I am still able to carry around an entire paperless office wherever I go. Indeed, I’ve now managed to convert from a rather large backpack, to a rather average (from the outside) messenger bag. Without paper, I recently discovered that I no longer have to carry around as much stuff as I used to.

This lightens the load quite a bit–at least it did for me. One of the side-effects of being paperless, of course, is not having to carry around any paper. I spend a lot of time in these tips demonstrating tips and tricks for going paperless, and how it saves me time.

Paperless office apps