Posts Tagged ‘filing’

Get Random!

We spend a lot of time at Lifehack talking about getting organized – making up lists, labeling files, simplifying your workspace, and so on. Everything in its place, and a place for everything, right? There’s nothing wrong with this view of organization, so long as you’re getting more work done than the time you’re spending on staying organized. But a lot of times, our brains don’t work quite so neatly. For… Continue reading

July 9 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: brainstorming, creativity, filing, flexibility, idea, randomness, search, unschedule | 12 comments»

3 People You Need to Train to Use the Inbox

When you get to your desk, is there a message slip on your keyboard? Maybe a Post-It note on your monitor? Perhaps a stack of important files on your chair? Each of those piles of paperwork needs your attention, but there's not exactly any order to it. The files will get stacked somewhere else on your desk so you can sit down. The message slip will get pushed off to… Continue reading

April 28 2009 | By Thursday | Tagged: filing, inbox, paper | 14 comments»

Back to Basics: Reference Filing

One of the greatest sources of clutter in just about any office environment is unfiled paperwork. I think everyone suffers at least a little from Keep-It Syndrome, that horrendous affliction that causes us to imbue every scrap of paper that crosses our desks with a mysterious power that makes it nearly impossible to throw anything away. At least part of the problem is indecisiveness. Many of the papers that we keep… Continue reading

November 14 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: filing, keyword, office, organization, paper-tiger, paperwork, tagging | 17 comments»