I've passed a pointer to your post to a friend who's been saying "filing, argh!" for a while now, and they say it makes sense and are likely to try it out. Thank you!
Your system is not unlike mine, though various implementation details and add-ons differ. As you say, I spend far more time putting things into it than referencing its contents -- but when I do want stuff, it's easy to find. This was a huge help when I dropped twelve years of paperwork on an accountant, and got all the critical bits with one fast sweep.
Commenting specifically to get this in email, because you can't grep dead trees. (But this system makes it much less *necessary* to grep dead trees, yay!)
Well this was peaceful to read! Thanks for posting it. I am almost completely paperless over here but if I wasn't I would totally be doing over my paper system today.
Oh, hey, I forgot to catch this one. And I need to fine tune my filing system (perhaps summer, after the shed is built). We currently use something similar (except that the bills and things don't have year folders, so we're literally going back nearly a decade on things like electric bills which have zero actual use at that geratricity.
This seems like a very helpful system, and one I can tweak for myself.
I am also a fan of the YYYY-MM-DD system of file naming, especially for the running daily journal I try to keep at work, to keep track of what I actually did.
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Your system is not unlike mine, though various implementation details and add-ons differ. As you say, I spend far more time putting things into it than referencing its contents -- but when I do want stuff, it's easy to find. This was a huge help when I dropped twelve years of paperwork on an accountant, and got all the critical bits with one fast sweep.
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And I need to fine tune my filing system (perhaps summer, after the shed is built). We currently use something similar (except that the bills and things don't have year folders, so we're literally going back nearly a decade on things like electric bills which have zero actual use at that geratricity.
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I am also a fan of the YYYY-MM-DD system of file naming, especially for the running daily journal I try to keep at work, to keep track of what I actually did.
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