Paper Tiger Blog

In this article, Rev. Robin Swieringa describes how she is using Paper Tiger Filing System software to index her extensive library and in her move from Canada to the United States. She will be so organized when unpacking in her new home! She won’t have to waste time searching through boxes to find something. She [...]

In this article, Linda Cossel says she’s retired, however in her retirement, she is a Wedding Minister, a writer, a hostess, and a Computer Graphics Designer. Wow! That’s a lot to keep up with! How does she do it? Well, read on to see how Linda uses Paper Tiger Filing System software to stay organized [...]

“I’ve spent the past week re-reading Sherry’s book Conquer Your Chaos and cleaning out the last dregs of debris in my office and emails. The filing system here was in such disrepair when I first started three years ago that I made six attempts to deal with it before finally calling Sherry Borsheim for help. [...]

Customer testimonial by Kimesha Butterfield I have been using Paper Tiger Document Management software for over 10 years.  When I first started to use it, I was a little afraid of using a numerical system instead of the alphabet system I had used for so many years.  Our Paper Tiger consultant, Cindy Swan was so [...]

I used to work as a Senior Operation Supervisor in an Offshore facility for Shell in Brunei. This was in 2001. We worked on a shift system where I am on duty for a week offshore and a week off onshore. One of our main challenges was handover to our back to backs. Most times [...]

This software has spoken to me regarding a huge speed bump in all businesses, but especially in mine “Clutter & Chaos”. After looking over numerous how-to books and software regarding getting organized, Paper Tiger had the look and ease my company, and more importantly me, were looking for. I have to admit it really was [...]

How do you dance with an octopus? That’s a question I ask myself everyday when I face my freelance public relations business, three children, a husband who’s running for office, volunteer pursuits, a household to run, and a tendency to put information management at the bottom of the list of things to do. Paper Tiger [...]

With a 40 year marriage, and a 37 year career in residential real estate, to say I have a lot of paper to keep track of is simply an understatement. Over the many years I attempted many times “to get organized” in my home office and my real estate office, and it simply seemed that [...]

Before using the Paper Tiger, frustration was the hallmark of my attempt to get organized; filing was a special challenge. People with attention-deficit are not good at details unless the process is interesting and fun. Organizing seemed to be an insurmountable challenge, and I was destined to live in a mess. After the Paper Tiger [...]

Three years ago, my life changed with the words “Your baby is beautiful, and she is perfect, and we are quite sure she has Down syndrome.” The months following Violette’s birth are something of a blur of Doctors appointments, therapy appointments, loving, caring and feeding the baby and my other two children, working full time, [...]

Signed up online with the simplest filing system in the world! I have bought at least five copies of Paper Tiger over my lifetime for specific spaces, but with so many physical places to work from it seemed unsurmountable to coordinate my different computers; office, home, travel laptop, guest computer, my husband’s ipad, now I [...]

In the past my offices have always been a mess – papers everywhere. My home was the same and I was sick of wasting time shuffling paper looking for that lost piece of information. A few years ago, I decided that was not going to happen in my new job. I didn’t have any money, [...]

How Did I Navigate My Father’s Papers After His Passing? My father passed away at the age of 87. He lived alone, in Budapest, Hungary. I, his only son, live in Toronto, ON., Canada. How, in a matter of a week or so, after his funeral, did I manage to take care of his affairs [...]

Our public works office has been using the Paper Tiger software for several years. We use the software to keep our filing system in order, up to date, and user friendly. Currently, we use it to keep track of our general public works and archive files. This system has been so helpful in organizing our [...]

How do I use The Paper Tiger to make my life easier? It might be easier to say how I DON’T use the program! I am half of a business that services the Alberta oil patch, plus I am a farmer, an artist, a sewer, a woodworker, a gardener and a family history researcher. The [...]