The promise of the digital office has been predicated on a paperless office. But anyone who has used electronic information systems for clinical care, customer support, business record keeping, or information sharing knows that paper has not completely gone away.

We probably all know a handful of technological sophisticates who use handheld devices and the Internet to read news or sports, email or message friends, map directions, or capture and transmit pictures. But most of us are still going to be using paper in one way or another for these activities, at least for a while.

So until the paperless world is a reality for all of us, we'll need to keep finding ways to manage and share paper-based information.

Where are you and your associates in the paperless scale -- still entirely paper based in your information sharing, entirely paperless, or somewhere in between? What are the unique hassles you face in this area? Most of us are so used to struggling with information in various formats that we hardly notice it.

Take a step back from your business process, think about how paper and electronic information sharing happens for you, and post your thoughts.