Document Ergonomics Filing Holidays 
Ian's Messy Desk
MAY 26, 2010
Files can be kept in open piles on a desk or in folders, according to your style. Use the RAFT template: refer it, act on it, file it or toss it. File it, if necessary. Eighty percent of filed papers are never looked at again. We you receive document revisions, toss the orginals. Act on it immediately.
Ian's Messy Desk
JULY 28, 2010
Schedule filing time at least once per week. Add dated or calendar items to a tickler file system or a diary as soon as they arrive. anything you need reminded of on some future date goes into your tickler file. Add dated or calendar items to a tickler file system or a diary as soon as they arrive.
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Ian's Messy Desk
JUNE 30, 2010
Not only did she remember the name of the antibiotic from four years previous, within 45 seconds she had pulled a copy of the prescription from her files. She understands the first measure of an effective productivity system: 1) You can find things that need to be found.
Laughing all the Way to Work
AUGUST 10, 2010
Better for you ergonomically as well. I have gotten in the habit of doing this frequently during the day and hardly even think about it until the system shuts down for some reason and then I breathe a sigh of relief when I open the document (by pressing Ctrl + o by the way) and find that I have not lost any of my work. 411 Look Up 411.ca
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