May 30, 2026 · 40 min · 17 segments
Going paperless can feel REALLY hard if we focus on all the backlog and try to change everything at once. That's why Alia (digital her whole life) and I (mostly digital after decades of working with…
Yeah, I- I originally thought I would like paper better, but didn't work out for me and my brain just clicked better with all things digital.
So I come from the perspective of really having known nothing but that, and then my mom here has had a hybrid system for many years where she uses several paper elements, but also digital components.
So I think we bring a good perspective to-
Mm-hmm
...
the best of both worlds, what you can accomplish with all that.
Well, and I really was mostly paper at the beginning because we just didn't have digital options like we do today, and so I've kind of been making the transition.
But to be honest, I would say I'm about 98% digital at this point.
I still have some paper structure just 'cause I like it.
[laughs] But, um, other than my paper planner, which is more of a security blanket, [laughs] I am mostly digital.
And I think this is a really powerful topic for this time, you know, in, in history because most people are moving to digital.
Like, it's just how the world's going, and so we'll talk about how to make that happen today.
Yeah.
And we'll talk about how I definitely have the paper components ready and available to catch anything paper that does land in my life.
Mm-hmm.
But there, there is a way to have both, or if you're like, "I hate all things digital, I just wanna stay paper," no problem.
This might help with other areas of your life that you might want to move-
Yeah
... that direction at some point.
And the reason that so many people have come to us with a lot of stress around this topic or just feeling that there's not an easy way forward is because they're looking at all the mountains of backlog.
Many people in our community have one, two, or even more filing cabinets full of old papers or memories.
Their kids are bringing home things from school, or they have all their past files and records from work and family life and things like that.
Or their parents' papers they've inherited.
[laughs]
Yes, lots of inherited piles of papers, and maybe they're all nicely organized, but it's just a lot of boxes of family photos-
Yeah, I- I originally thought I would like paper better, but didn't work out for me and my brain just clicked better with all things digital.
So I come from the perspective of really having known nothing but that, and then my mom here has had a hybrid system for many years where she uses several paper elements, but also digital components.
So I think we bring a good perspective to-
Mm-hmm
...
the best of both worlds, what you can accomplish with all that.
Well, and I really was mostly paper at the beginning because we just didn't have digital options like we do today, and so I've kind of been making the transition.
But to be honest, I would say I'm about 98% digital at this point.
I still have some paper structure just 'cause I like it.
[laughs] But, um, other than my paper planner, which is more of a security blanket, [laughs] I am mostly digital.
And I think this is a really powerful topic for this time, you know, in, in history because most people are moving to digital.
Like, it's just how the world's going, and so we'll talk about how to make that happen today.
Yeah.
And we'll talk about how I definitely have the paper components ready and available to catch anything paper that does land in my life.
Mm-hmm.
But there, there is a way to have both, or if you're like, "I hate all things digital, I just wanna stay paper," no problem.
This might help with other areas of your life that you might want to move-
Yeah
... that direction at some point.
And the reason that so many people have come to us with a lot of stress around this topic or just feeling that there's not an easy way forward is because they're looking at all the mountains of backlog.
Many people in our community have one, two, or even more filing cabinets full of old papers or memories.
Their kids are bringing home things from school, or they have all their past files and records from work and family life and things like that.
Or their parents' papers they've inherited.
[laughs]
Yes, lots of inherited piles of papers, and maybe they're all nicely organized, but it's just a lot of boxes of family photos-
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