Pursuit of Paper Perfection #5 - Filing
Mini #143
15 pages
The Pursuit of Paper Perfection Mini series is edited by MTM member, SherrieBeth. It is a compilation of extracted material from Brook’s two online paper courses– Managing Everyday Paper and Paper Piles and Files–put into manageable minis for members.
Filing…the very thought of it can fill one with dread and anxiety. “Now that I’ve done the sorting, categorizing, trashing, and learned how to process my active paper…where does it all go when I’m done? What do I do with it NOW??”
The objective of this mini-makeover is to answer these questions for us so that we now have a pile-less, stash-less, efficient paper management system that serves our needs. We need to be able to find something if we need it. We need to be able to put something away when we are done with it. We need to never have a stash of paper, lurking behind the shadows, and mocking our effectiveness, ever again.
We review both short term and long term filing as well as different filing systems. We also create our filing categories to set up our system.