It has now been three weeks since I began my paperless quest!  It is still going well! 

I am continuing to use my new phone for many, many things I used to need paper to do.  I am still using my phone for my to do list.  I use the android app for remember the milk.  I still use my phone for many of my notes using the android app for evernote.  I am also using my phone frequently for specific genealogy tasks as well.  I am still using Family Tree Maker 2012 for my main genealogy program.  I have found that I like using the online tree to edit most of the time.  I especially use it for adding the personal family tree information.  I use my laptop with FTM2012 for adding photos and other images and then sync to the online tree. 

I have made significant progress on my tree in the past few days.  I now have 2347 people in my tree.  I started with about 540 people a few weeks ago.  I also have over 1990 records attached to those people.  My tree also includes 1663 photos and 121 stories or notes attached to those people.  I have over 8087 hints to process on my tree.  Every time I clear off a few hints, I get more added as I add in my family, especially when adding the family tree hints that add new people to the tree!

I progressed over the weekend in becoming more organized!  I went through my many thousands of files on my external drive that I use for backup.  I eliminated many of those files.  I had files that were almost 15 years old!  I decided to just get rid of those old files!  I am going to get organized.  Tonight, I am going to work on getting rid of at least part of my old emails.  I am using a program called imapsize to import my old emails into my gmail emails.  This will allow me to have access my emails from wherever I am.  Using the “cloud” for all my files is slowly becoming a reality for me. 

With my new phone, I am slowly becoming much more paperless but also much more organized and much more productive because I can get things done wherever I am!  In fact, I am once again writing this post on my phone because I can now write my posts faster with the swype keyboard and method of entry than I can type!  Also, I seem to think better when I am writing on my phone than when I am typing on my computer. 

More to come next week!

Kellie