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Ari Meisel is co-founder at Less Doing, where he works on making every task in life and business more efficient. He used self-tracking to overcome Crohn’s Disease and compete in Ironman France. You can follow him on Twitter @liontex and read his blog at arimeisel.com.

I was recently working on a real estate development project, and the mountain of paperwork that was produced and wasted was heartbreaking. Every time the plans changed, an oversized set of prints was made — a copy for the owner, the builder, the engineer, and one for the town building department.

We’re talking about 60 sheets of paper that might have garnered four minutes of attention, and were then discarded. This doesn’t take into account the invoices, delivery slips, contracts, faxes, etc.

The point is that using paper is inefficient, it’s bad for the environment and it locks us down, preventing mobility. Let’s get rid of it, shall we?

The following services, apps and gadgets aim to completely eliminate the need for paper in your life.

1. LifeLock

LifeLock is a service that helps prevent identity theft by automatically removing your name from every mailing list you don’t want to be a part of.

The service renews monthly to ensure you are permanently removed from lists and not placed on new ones. Within three months of signing up for Lifelock, I had reduced my paper mail intake by about 70%.

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