August 18, 2018 | By: Shailen Singh
Categories: Education & Schools
Staying organized with all the paperwork we have for our son is difficult. Recently we moved from a paper-based system to an electronic one. In the past, we used a big binder with darn near everything in it. But we made the transition to cloud-based storage for our content. We use Google Drive.
Every time we get a doctor’s note or a therapy report, we immediately scan it and put it online.
The reason this works well for us is:
Here are two examples:
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We still have that binder that we use. It’s now in a drawer somewhere. With next to unlimited cloud space, we are rethinking any paper-based systems that we’ve had in the past.
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