Let Go Of File Management

As part of Earthsite founder Joey Shepp's presentation titled Sustainable Work: Stay Sane in the Communication Age, he recommends cloud based systems for managing your files.  Benefits include: automated organizing, advanced search, sharing, syncronizing and backups.  

Recommended Tools - Apple

• Photos - Photo Stream
• Music - iTunes Match
• Applications - App Store
• Backups - Time Machine
• Calendars - iCal
• Email - IMap
• Documents - iCloud, iWork

Recommended Tools - Universal

• Photos - Flickr, Facebook, Picasa
• Music - Pandora, Spotify, Last FM
• Applications - Web Apps
• Backups - Dropbox, Carbonite, Mozy
• Calendars -iCalShare, Google Calendar
• Email - IMap, Gmail
• Documents - Dropbox, Box.net