Joyce wrote me:
I'm usually pretty good at organizing, but I am getting my home office in order so that I can start a new project and have a stack of papers on topics A-Z. Would like some suggestions for organizing paper files in the 3 drawer cabinet. I have lots of file folders already creates but I think that there are too many categories. I use the cabinet for all papers that I keep.
Hi Joyce,
My personal favorite way of organizing paper files comes from David Allen's book Getting Things Done. Â He advises making lots of files at whim, for anything you want to file, and using a labelwriter to make a new label for each file. Â Label the file whatever is most related to that particular information, and file it in A-Z order in the cabinet.
Then when you want to find something, you'll know what you called it and you'll find it in alphabetical order in the cabinet.
Of course this can create lots of files, so you just need to have a periodic clean out of anything that you really dont need to keep.
Hope that helps. Â Let me know what you end up trying 
Originally posted 2009-07-13 20:13:38.
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