This year I have been on a quest to make my consulting business fully portable.
Almost everything now is in the cloud.
Marketing automation – Keap / Infusionsoft
Accounting – Xero
Email, word processing, spreadsheets – Google Apps for business.
I have done away with the desktop PC and switched to a laptop. But nothing is stored on the laptop – all my key data is in the cloud on Google Drive. So the laptop is just a window into my virtual office – if the laptop gets broken, lost or stolen it is not the end of the world as it can be easily and cheaply replaced and causes me the minimum of disturbance.
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So I can work from my laptop or any other PC connected to the internet. But there are two things that could be minor irritations. Say I received a document that I need to scan or a document I need to print.
Now on the printing, I have yet to figure out how to do that without a printer. So I am stuck with having to find a local solution for that if/ when the need arrises to print as document.
But on the scanner. I have a flatbed scanner on my desk but since I upgraded to Windows 10 it does not work, as it is so old it does not have a Windows 10 driver. So that has become useless. I was thinking of purchasing a replacement. Until last weekend the solution popped up on a promoted video on LinkedIn – of course – an iPhone app to turn your phones camera into a scanner. A quick search on the app store reveals I do not even need a paid for app – as there are free ones.
After testing I am really pleased now that I did not go out and buy another physical scanner when my phone can do the job anyway.
So that is another move towards making my office fully portable.
Julian
