Posts Tagged ‘retrieval’
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
Focus on Filing, Part 3: The Finer Points
In: Paper Management
1 Jun 2007Originally from Matt Baier’s Organizing Works Newsletter, June 2007 Focus On Filing, Part 3: The Finer Points For want of a Nail the Shoe was lost; for want of a Shoe the Horse was lost; and for want of a Horse the Rider was lost; being overtaken and slain by the Enemy, all for want [...]
Focus on Filing, Part 2: User-Friendly Filing
In: Paper Management
1 Jun 2007Originally from Matt Baier’s Organizing Works Newsletter, May 2007 FOCUS ON FILING, PART 2: USER-FRIENDLY FILING The AVERAGE executive wastes one hour a day looking for lost or misplaced items. That’s six weeks a year! -The Wall Street Journal Last month I discussed the File Cycle, the lifecycle of a file in four [...]
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