A Conversation for How to optimise your filing system
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Wand'rin star Started conversation Jan 12, 2001
Far too much stuff is kept. In some places this is legally necessary, but far too much stuff is kept "in case we need it"
Academic offices are terrible for this. I do my filing once a week and fill the recycling bin. I sort email every morning and chuck.
I go through the paper filing system twice a year and throw out anything I haven't used the previous semester.
Ditto with the personal stuff. I go home to England twice a year and it's apalling how much paper rubbish has built up since the last visit.
So why have I still got a birthday card in my desk that my children gave me thirteen years ago?
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You can call me TC Posted Mar 27, 2001
Will include this in a working over I am now giving the entry.
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Wand'rin star Posted Mar 29, 2001
I think it's a lovely article. Have extended your filing ideas to clothes cupboards. There is no point in keeping anything unworn for a year and less than no point in keeping odd socks
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You can call me TC Posted Mar 29, 2001
Tell me about it!!!!
I shall make sure that you are given a mention, WS, as I have incorporated your suggestions. Have you read the version I put up last night?
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Wand'rin star Posted Mar 29, 2001
Nice one
The main point of colour coding is that it brightens the ubiquitous grey. I HATE grey office furniture
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