I’m swimming in a sea of paperwork. The important stuff gets handled: paying bills, filing important documents, etc. But there’s that stuff you need/want to keep but don’t know how to classify it. For me, it becomes a stack that sits on the floor, waiting for me to use precious hours of the day on mindless filing or follow-up.
After six months I realize the pile is no smaller and the world hasn’t come to an end. So was it really that important? I could shred it (which I often do) but just maybe I’ll need something buried in that pile.
Here’s an interesting way to avoid the piles and auto-sort your paper crap by date. More after the jump. Enter the filing system known as The Noguchi Filing System created by one of those highly-efficient, protocol-following Japanese. The gist: store items in large envelopes, labeled and sorted by date, adding new ones to the left. Eventually the old stuff moves to the far right and gets thrown into a box and forgotten about, or ideally, filed the old-fashioned way.
So what’s the upside for a paper stacker like me? No more messy piles on the floor.
(Via CNET News.com)
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