http://blog.abenker.com Alexander Benker über Personal Productivity, Zusammenarbeit und den Faktor Mensch Mon, 06 Sep 2010 08:12:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://blog.abenker.com/2009/01/20/workflow-snail-mail/ http://blog.abenker.com/2009/01/20/workflow-snail-mail/#comments Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:10:53 +0000 Alexander http://blog.abenker.com/2009/01/20/workflow-snail-mail/ Here is an outline of my workflow for paper documents (normally received via snail mail)

1. Is it trash? – if yes: dump it and exit
2. Scan the document (as pdf)
3. Name the file “yyyymmdd name.pdf”
4. File the paper – filing of paper will be discussed in a separate post.
5. File the scan in my private folder “scans” on my MS SkyDrive account
6. Link in my diary
   (I have a private WordPress blog I use as my personal diary – will be covered in a separate post). I post a link here, since often I’m searching for a paper I received “sometime last summer”.
7. Optional: additional link in my wiki (will be covered in a separate post)
   e.g. if it is a letter from my insurance company I also link it from the appropriate entry in my wiki
8. Optional: extract information from the letter and put it in my wiki
   e.g. new insurance number…

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