Maynard's Thoughts

The Start (Paperless Project)

Justin Maynard — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 05:08:19 +0000

So in my effort to go paperless, I have started using Evernote for everything. It has been hard to only go into meetings with an iPad and NO paper. I have started snapping pictures of everything and adding it to Evernote. This has saved my ass once already when I snapped a picture of the white board we were working off of. I could not for the life of me remember one of the list we wrote down, but then thought, wait I took a picture. Went through Evernote and there is was “my life save” aka the note I needed. Evernote has now earned its way to all of my docks for easy access.

However, I still have all of my old notes and lots of old documents. So now I’m looking for a great document scanner. Thinking about the Scan Snap S1300 from Fujitsu, however, Canon has some nice models too. I just need one that is reliable and can scan say 15 to 20 sheets with out me having to stand there and feed it. Now for all of these documents I have created the same filing system I used virtually that I had psychically. Its a folder labeled “Files”, then 27 folders named “A-Z and Need to File”. Then in those files I only create a folder if I have something to put in it. I use the name of the company to label all of these folders.

All said I believe I am about 90% at home and 95% at work paperless. I have a few more things to convert over to digital and then its just a matter of keeping it up. Also, forgot to mention the paper to do have coming in to the house, we are recycling.

2012 Goals

Justin Maynard — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 20:18:35 +0000

I’m not calling this my “2012 resolutions” because I create one of these list every year and only one or two get completed. So this year I’m going about it a little different. These are my 2012 goals, by goals I mean, I’m setting hard dead lines.

1) Go paper less
- I started working on this at the end of 2011 so I should be able to complete this no later that March.

2) Complete CCNA and CCNA Voice
- CCNA = June 2012
- CCNA Voice = November 2012

3) Blog, blog, blog
- at least one entry a week (I will try)

4) Read
- one book a month (non-technical) (I will list the books on here so you will see if I complete this or not)
- five news articles every morning (technical or non-technical)

5) Workout
- 10 to 15 minutes every morning
- 20 to 30 minutes every night (more if time allows)
- get to 5k by May

Staycation

Justin Maynard — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 04:54:04 +0000

So I’m half way through my stay-cation. I am already going stir crazy and ready to go back to work. I have been using some of my time to catch up on reading and training.

I will begin posting more about day to day activities of a systems administrator, for an e-commerce company. If you have any question you would like me to answer. You can either email me at jmaynard@maynardsthoughts.me or post a comment.

Welcome

Justin Maynard — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:14:00 +0000

I will be posting many random and not so random thoughts here. If you like what I have to say please keep coming back, if not well I’m sorry but I can’t make everyone happy.