A handy way to “fax” yourself.
Sometimes when I’m out working with my laptop, I come across something that really needs to be dealt with when I return to my desk at home. Maybe it’s something I’ll want to file, maybe I need to delegate it, or maybe it’s just something that I’ll want to put into my inbox and process later. A really handy way to do this is to print to your home printer in offline mode. Then, whenever you go home and plug back into your docking station/printer out will pop anything you chose to print while you were out. No thought required, which fits neatly into my philosophy of making systems as completely fool-proof as possible.
I'm trying to be a Renaissance man in an age of specialization. I'm a father, a writer, a programmer, a lover, and a fighter. I'm trying real hard to be the shepard, but sometimes I'm afraid that I am the tyranny of evil men. You get a cookie if you recognize the movie reference :-)
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I use that same trick all the time. I even use it for recalling “to-do things” at client sites. I’ll queue a document for a client’s printer while at home so that it prints when I get on the client’s network. It’s a useful trick.