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Even after all these years I'm still fascinated with how print and digital can work together in interesting and useful ways. At the moment, in my head, I've nicknamed this strand of mucking about 'the Paper CRM'.The current experiment is; how do I gracefully and appropriately do Data In and Data Out with informal bits of paper, real world handwriting, computers and apps.To that end I've got two new things next to my desk:First is an old receipt printer of off ebay.It prints my To Do list every morning......which it gets out of my Things app.The second is this scanner.camera thing off of shopping which is pointing at a small wooden tray the same size as an index card. If I put a piece of paper in there it scans, reads it and takes appropriate action. For instance, if it sees a bit of paper with EMAIL written on it it sends it to my email. If it's one of my To Do lists it looks to see if anything's been ticked of and then removes that from Things.The next obvious move is to make the…

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