gromit
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Okay I need some advice from people who are good at this or from people who have trouble with it but have come up with good strategies/approaches.
It's something I have to do for work a lot… but it shows up in other areas of life sometimes too (e.g. in the kitchen). On a project there are often all of these different files, and I need to organize them in some way (this is not my primary role in my company, but I do have to at least keep track of the stuff on which I’m working). Somehow the task is overwhelming. I try to come up with categories that make sense, but a lot of the problem is that it’s difficult to decide whether a certain document would go into one category or another, because it often seems like it could go into several places, and it’s difficult to form categories that are all the same level of detail, because in some ways they seem to be the same level of detail but then in other ways, they do not seem to be the same level of detail.
So then eventually what ends up happening is this snarled maze of files (electronic) and a lot of physical folders with really unhelpful names. It would be fine if it were just me accessing the files, but other people need to use them as well.
This is a skill I would like to develop. What are good ways to go about doing this?
It's something I have to do for work a lot… but it shows up in other areas of life sometimes too (e.g. in the kitchen). On a project there are often all of these different files, and I need to organize them in some way (this is not my primary role in my company, but I do have to at least keep track of the stuff on which I’m working). Somehow the task is overwhelming. I try to come up with categories that make sense, but a lot of the problem is that it’s difficult to decide whether a certain document would go into one category or another, because it often seems like it could go into several places, and it’s difficult to form categories that are all the same level of detail, because in some ways they seem to be the same level of detail but then in other ways, they do not seem to be the same level of detail.
So then eventually what ends up happening is this snarled maze of files (electronic) and a lot of physical folders with really unhelpful names. It would be fine if it were just me accessing the files, but other people need to use them as well.
This is a skill I would like to develop. What are good ways to go about doing this?