Feral paper in your office
Has paper gone feral in your office? You know what I mean, piles of papers on your desk, more on the floor, paper everywhere in fact. It used to be organised and filed once, but then you got busy. Now you’ve forgotten how you used to organise your paper files and you’ve started storing some…
read more »Selling your house? Give your home office a makeover first
Friends of mine moved house recently and I caught up with them in week two in their new home. By then most of their life was sorted and everything had a place in the kitchen, garden tools were stored neatly in the garden shed, the linen was neatly stacked in a hall cupboard and the…
read more »What does gardening have in common with filing?
Last weekend I was in the garden cleaning up around the rengarenga lilies that had been home to snails for some time. (If you don’t know these plants, they form low bushes of long fleshy leaves and a myriad of white flowers in spring and summer). As I pulled off shredded leaves that the snails…
read more »Paper or electronic filing – or both?
Do you store your business information in paper format or in electronic formats? Or both? Do you remember the logic behind your decision about what to file where and in want format? How do you decide what to do with incoming items? It can be very confusing when you start to think about a filing…
read more »Simply filing
Last week I wrote about the amount of time wasted in businesses because people can’t find bits of information quickly and easily. Following on from that, there are two important aspects to consider when it comes to organising your information. First you need to store it somewhere – and you need to be able to…
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