Every time you repeat something, you tend to make it better and better and one day you’ll have highly optimized methods. However, when it’s up to computers, it doesn’t work like that. Although people spend hours and hours in front of computers, organization methods didn’t improve that much over the last years.<\/p>\n
I guess it’s very interesting to acknowledge that people use computers for quite a while but don’t have automatic methods for dealing with data. For instances, can you easily access any file in your computer? Do you remember where did you put that<\/em> file? Is\u00a0your\u00a0desktop\u00a0organized? Do you frequently backup your data?\u00a0Have you lost important files due to a Windows failure or hardware malfunction?<\/p>\n Looking back, when you had your old computer with DOS and a tiny disk, you had to be organized! I had to know all the main directories by heart (which was a way to keep everything in place) and since I hadn’t much disk space, I couldn’t afford to collect trash (which made me collect only the right data). Since technology offered me a low liability, I had to backup frequently.<\/p>\n Some months ago, I decided to keep things organized. After\u00a0reading lots of articles<\/a>,\u00a0reading\u00a0again\u00a0GTD<\/a> and several experiences, my model is the following:<\/p>\n Remember that many files are only\u00a0useful\u00a0as\u00a0future\u00a0reference. Keep\u00a0them\u00a0in\u00a0one\u00a0place,\u00a0but\u00a0never\u00a0mix\u00a0them\u00a0with\u00a0the\u00a0“hot\u00a0ones”.<\/p>\n One\u00a0good\u00a0strategy\u00a0is\u00a0thinking:\u00a0What\u00a0would\u00a0I\u00a0keep\u00a0in\u00a0case\u00a0of\u00a0a\u00a0fire? :) This is one way\u00a0of thinking: How many folders would I have to browse to collect every important file?<\/p>\n\n