I've noticed that I don't write things down as much as I used to. If I need to remember the model number of something I'm using, I'll take a picture of the item and file that away. When I wanted a new wheel trim for the car I just took a picture of the one that I wanted and took that into the spares shop. When I needed to note down the registration of the car last week, rather than write it down I used the phone to take a picture.

Sounds like overkill, but is it really? I'm a lot better at organising my pictures than just about anything else. They all sit on my hard drive and I've got programs that let me categorise them and add data to them about what they are. I really don't want to be bothered with bits of paper with writing on, I prefer it when everything is in one place, which I can search and sort really easily.

And when it comes to really important documents, the ones that we have spread around the house in hard to find files and folders, I'd love it if all this stuff was just on computer as well, so I could just find it. I don't want to have to find the paper insurance certificate (which is printed by a computer anyway), I want to just the information it represents in a file on my hard disk (or perhaps stored on a server somewhere else). Hopefully someone out there is working on a unified system which will represent all this stuff in a way which will stop me havig to turn the house upside down when I get asked for a bit of paper I seem to have "misfiled".