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Two-minute Tips for Turbulent Times with David Allen
Get Your Paper Based Filing System in Order
Actually, it's a tip for any time... If you don't have a really good, quick filing system that you can put stuff into and access easily. Then the stuff tends to mount up and then constipate your system. Get it clean, get it streamlined, get it current. Here's mine. My paper based system now lives three places. In a 2 drawer file cabinet, a rack of files, right on my desk, and then upstairs in an attic area, I have long term storage. My primary filing system is just a simple file drawer, alpha sorted, of things that I need, paper based. And sometimes paper based is better then PDFs, easier to see in a batch if I need to refer to something. Anyway, there's my basic filing system, I used to have four drawers now, it's primarily in one. I have a lower drawer here that has some older documents, that I might need, you know, legal documents etc., that I might need to refer to. three or four times a year maybe, but they're down there, as well as extra file folders. And then on my desk are the things that I actually throw stuff into almost on a daily basis. So, that's the filing system. It needs to be current, it needs to be clean and that makes a huge difference. You'd be surprised at how good a filing system like that can make sure that you keep your cockpit, and keep your desk and work area, nice and clean and organized.
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[@TerryBenzie]

It makes me feel better that DA has "long term filing" in the attic.

[@laurastackmusic]

Thanks for the example. It was helpful to see.

[@ptah956]

Symmetrical book stacking. Just like the Philadelphia mass turbulence of 1947

[@iangrant3615]

I thought of the same thing haha!

[@Votlon]

hello, David Allen as well, David Allen the Second in fact. Not to be confused with JR. David Allen the first is not my father.
No joke lol, just sharing :3

[@yohanesliong4818]

Nice, thank you.

[@paddingtonlaw2491]

Thank you, love your diligence and your so cute😉

[@paulpalinkas]

You've switched to using hanging folders?

[@brettzachar6570]

Yeah, what's the reason here? Do as I say, not as I do.

[@O1OO1O1]

Oh look, hanging files.

[@tslomt]

?

[@siobhanjones2253]

@@tslomt His books say not to use them :)

[@PhilDanyew]

It looks to me like the hanging file folders are closed and empty and just used as dividers...

[@kultaev]

Thanks for video David! Which paper folders you use in EU as manila folders with so handy top title 1/3 parts which are common in US with horizontal load are not standard in EU.

[@lodnisroub]

I want to see the photo from Berkeley from 1970!

[@atsz.]

I'm guessing these are all references?

[@joshuakeene7521]

Who is Bill Raeder?