Paperless Office portal
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BOOK how to bring the paperless office closer to reality: take any ordinary office or desk job and consolidate everything physical i would see into the computer:
- "myDigitalTable" software app: A window on desktop that would replace all items in offices with a collection of programs, widgets, and shortcuts.
- telephone
- contacts holder wheel
- todo/task list
- calendars
- post-it notes
- books
- magazines/publications
- reminders
- address book
- printouts of all sorts that are displayed throughout
- separate fax/copy/printer units
- paper forms (maintain as remotely updateable files on computer)
- queue systems
- stamps
- general passing of paper by fax
- billing systems
- receipts
- advertisements of all sorts
- documentation/information paper storage
- filing systems
- reference information stored on paper, including books
- subscriptions and publications
- catalogs
- pens and paper
- reference printouts
- photos
- notepad
- clocks, calendars, organizers
how to reduce and replace paper use:
- tell people how to select wise printing options, esp with internet printouts
- make a feature for firefox to eliminate blank pages, or let user check for them
- document stupid use of printouts for paper, such as e-mail and notice printouts, webpage, and fax printouts.
- develop a plastic marker-eraseable or physically rewritteable (i.e. by making it possible to have words come out in plastic, either on surface or throughout the thickness; and them somehow rewrite this to say something else)