And I made sure I had plenty of file drawers in the new office. I have filing cabinets at home (my desk there is a big thick door on two filing cabinets). I also believe in keeping a pretty open filing system. Sometimes I slack, and forget to put things in some designated or logical place, so it takes an hour or two on a Saturday morning to clean and file away the little things. In my mind, once I have familiarity with a place (apartment, office, hotel, etc.) everything I have with me usually has a logical place it belongs, and I’m pretty diligent about putting it there. The messiness represents a time period when I’ve been too busy to keep things organized. When my desk is cluttered, I feel disorganized. Physically, I prefer to have less things visible in my environment than more. I can see relationships in organization with both my physical and digital worlds. Everything else either found a new home, or eventually got donated or tossed. To do that, I often pulled everything out, and only put back in the things I knew I wanted/needed to keep. I was always rearranging my bedroom, or tearing apart my closet growing up, reorganizing so everything made sense to me and looked the way I wanted it. I think I’ve been organized most of my life. It’s a pretty broad question that can get into all kinds of areas. I’ve never answered this question, even to myself, so it’s a little tricky to think about it. Any thoughts on how to improve my organization with software, practices, etc… are much appreciated.” How do you stay organized? I’m struggling with keeping things on point and I’m wondering what you use. Writing out my answer surprised me in how much I could articulate that which I do almost subconsciously. Joshua Heyer wrote me today with a question which I’ve never given much thought.
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