Keeping chisels and plane irons razor sharp minimum fuss

I get my tools razor sharp and then after a little while they lose that sharpness which I'd like to recover as soon as possible. I use a buffing wheel charged with chromium oxide and that does the job most of the time, sometimes I may go too far and the buffing doesn't recover the original sharpness. I'd like to just keep the tools razor sharp with a minimum of fuss and like the option of not having to turn on the bench grinder to strop as I work inside sometimes and late at night. Any suggestions?