Posts Tagged ‘file cabinet’
To File Is To Find
In: Paper Management
31 Jan 2012It’s all too common to think of a file cabinet as a place to make paper go away. It’s not. It should be a safe place to store files where they can be FOUND reliably. Don’t put things you want to make a point of acting on in your file drawer. They will be out [...]
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- Tags: file cabinet, files, information, records
My Case Against Paper Clips
9 Jan 2012This isn’t the first time I have attacked a familiar office convention. There was the accordion file, the spiral notebook, and the rubberband.Today, I take issue with the apparently harmless paper clip. Let me start by saying I do use paper clips myself. I believe they have their place. It’s just that I find they [...]
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- Tags: file cabinet, files, paper clips, projects
17 Minute File Diet
In: Paper Management
17 May 2010A couple weeks ago in my May Tip of the Month I recommended transferring your old taxes, old statements, and old tax supporting material from your file cabinet to a more remote location. I said that it should only take 15-20 minutes if you had a user-friendly file system set up. This weekend, I followed [...]
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Out With The Old!
1 Dec 2008Originally from Matt Baier’s Organizing Works Newsletter, December 2008 It’s only natural to want to make a fresh start in the upcoming New Year. Now is the perfect time to clear out your stuff from 2008 and create space for the new possibilities of 2009. This installment of Organizing Works is dedicated to getting rid [...]
Two Sides of a Coin
In: Paper Management
1 Jul 2008Originally from Matt Baier’s Organizing Works Newsletter, July 2008 TWO SIDES OF A COIN If you think of storage as a one-way street, disorganization is inevitable. Instead, I find it helpful to think of storage as a coin, where STORAGE is heads and RETRIEVAL is tails. Storage without retrieval is not a solution. It is [...]
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- Tags: closets, David Allen, file cabinet, inbox, pocketbook, Post-Its, retrieval, storage
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