To effectively organize your digital documents, it’s important to recognize that your struggles likely stem from weak habits rather than weak intentions. You’re probably saving documents quickly, naming them haphazardly, and searching for them in a vague way. Rather than just “trying to be more organized,” it’s better to drill…
If you need to improve your documentation process, you don’t need to spend more time on it. You need to see what you can’t see when you are in the midst of it. It’s the little things, like a slightly different name, or the placement in a slightly different place,…
Many times, when you’re overwhelmed by the number of documents you have to deal with, the issue isn’t so much the quantity of documents as it is the lack of routine in how you handle them. You open a file, do something with it, don’t quite finish it, and then…
Creating a reliable workflow from scratch can be intimidating. A blank slate is overwhelming when there is no framework to apply. The challenge isn’t writing and filing itself, it’s what to do with each item and how they fit together. Without a structure, tasks add up, files get mixed up,…