In Russia, it seems, you can dig up something unnecessary at every home: whether it's an old Soviet ski or a closet with a CD and DVD, a school diary for the first grade or a whole shelf with children's comics The question arises: what to do with all this? Let's try to figure out how to get rid of unnecessary things and put things in perfect order not only in the house, but also in your head.
Most recently, we listened to music on magnetic cassettes and stored data on CDs. Now almost everything can be found online. This allows you to create your own collections of movies and music, as well as use online documents.
But, if you think about it, everyone will have something that they would like to review or listen to again, but which cannot be found on the Internet. Rare cassettes or records can be digitized — that is, converted into a digital form suitable for recording on electronic media. So you will replenish your personal, and at the same time, the world music collection. In addition, shelves and cabinets will become much freer.
How do you store your photos: scattered in different folders and albums or clearly structured by date and title?
Have you ever thought of scanning printed photos and old negatives? Of course, it's too lazy to do this. But if you still try, you will collect your own photo bank, while receiving a lot of pleasant impressions and emotions. And constant access to the captured moments of life will be provided by services such as Picasa or Lyn.
The hand keeps reaching for paper and pencil, and reality dictates its own rules: it is faster and easier to use the Todoist scheduler, it is much more efficient to jot down notes in GoogleDocs or Fetchnotes. You can solve the problem with a collective mind using the Wunderkit service. No less useful for organizing collaboration on projects is Do, whose interface is designed in the style of Twitter.
Business cards, despite the fact that they are made of paper, do not lose their relevance to this day. However, the more they are, the more difficult it is to store them and it is more difficult to use them in everyday life.
It is much more convenient to keep contact details in electronic form. Firstly, this way you save time searching for the necessary information. Secondly, if necessary, contacts can be easily copied and transmitted, for example, by email or SMS.
"Holding a real book in your hands is much more romantic," some will say. But others have knowledge of at least 5 advantages of electronic publications over paper ones. Here they are:
There are a lot of recipes on the Web, it's difficult to track all updates, but I always want to cook something new. Now there are many services for tracking "culinary fashion", including useful life hacks on cooking.
Here is the recipe of a modern chef: install the application Punchfork.com and enter the available ingredients in the search field. Voila, there is a recipe!
Nothing takes up as much space as old movie DVDs. They take up a lot of space, but it's kind of a pity to throw them out. Despite the rather long service life of DVD media, it is best to transfer all your favorite videos to a portable hard drive.
The discount card is never at hand at the moment when it is so needed. Is the situation familiar? Then you just need, right now, to take and transfer the data of gift and discount cards to your online document or at least to your phone. So that next time you don't regret the lost opportunity to buy something pleasant and useful, and even at a discount!
Having cash on hand, on the one hand, is good. On the other hand, it is much more practical and safer (which is important) to keep money in an electronic wallet.
The Soviet fear of banks that they will cheat and take away every last penny is disappearing into oblivion. Modern people are increasingly making purchases on the Internet, completely without thinking about the process of paying for them. In addition, now every self-respecting bank has its own mobile version, which allows you to make payments and other transactions with simple text messages.
Let's say you don't need that old piece of paper on the shelf with the documents right now. But time will pass, and you will still have to scan it, or find or create an electronic version of it. It's still a bit difficult to get rid of paper documents completely. But everything is coming to this.
