Replace Paper with Formstack

With apps like Formstack, there’s very little reason for organizations to use paper forms. Replace them with Formstack forms! Not only are they far easier but they are good for the environment, reducing everyone’s dependence on paper.

Checkout Formstack’s blog for more on this and our review, Easy Web Forms with Formstack.

Go Digital with your Diary/Journal

You might not think about it but your little diary or journal is just another tax on our environment that could easily be replaced by killer apps like Penzu. Not only that but you won’t have to worry about anyone else reading it.

Checkout our review, A Private Web: Digital Journal with Penzu.

Billing, Estimates and Reports

After working at a newspaper, an extremely paper oriented industry, it was incredibly refreshing to move on to freelancing where I could use amazing apps like FreshBooks to completely eliminate paper invoices, receipts, estimates and reports. I only wish newspapers and other businesses would do the same.

• Easy Time Tracking and Invoicing with FreshBooks
• Easy Invoices with Blinksale

Backup and Share via Cloud

There are an amazing number of fantastic cloud backup apps these days; so many, in fact, you could easily ditch your backup hard drive and backup entirely to the cloud. Large data centers will likely be more power efficient than your external, and possibly internal, hard drives. You could also ditch those USB flash drives that seem to be everywhere.

• Backup, Sync and Share with SpiderOak
• Sync, Store and Share Files with SugarSync
• Simple File Sharing and Collaboration with drop.io
• Extend the Web with Dropbox

Manage Tasks and Notes Digitally

There’s really no reason to have a desk littered with sticky notes and cups full of pens when you have apps like Remember The Milk available. Taking it a step further, keep your notes in the cloud with apps like Evernote.

• Get Things Done with Remember
  The Milk
• Don’t Forget: Use Evernote

Reduce Ink and Paper Usage

Using an app like PrintWhatYouLike.com you can significantly reduce the amount of ink and paper used when you do need to print something. You’ll also get rid of all that extra crap when printing websites that you don’t want printed anyway. Checkout our review, Printing Pages with Print What You Like.