Are You a Paper Packrat? Here's a Creative Solution

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Are you incapable of throwing out a piece of paper because you're afraid you may need the information on it later? Do you have piles of paper on your desk, boxes of magazine articles and brochures in your closet, and heaps of magazines and newspapers tucked in a corner of your bedroom?

Writers, artists, and other creative types especially have a hard time sorting and filing information, partly because just having it around can provide a creative spark - until you're so inundated that you can't even get to it when you want it. Luckily, you don't necessarily need to get rid of all that clutter; you don't even need to categorize it before you file it. You just need a good way of quickly and easily storing and documenting it so that you can put your hands on it when you want it.

First, gather a few simple materials:

·An assortment of standard three-ring binders; 1-inch binders are a good size. If you want to create large categories for your papers, get several colors of binders: green for gardening, blue for crafts, yellow for health information, etc.

·Several boxes of 8˝ x 11-inch clear plastic sleeves, punched for a three-ring binder

·A package of small white stickers (for page labels)

·Pens

·Labels designed to fit on the spines of three-ring binders

·A computer word processing program such as MS Word or WordPerfect

·A box of 8˝ x 11-inch file folders

Separate magazines and newspapers and set them aside for now. We'll work on them later.

Stick a label on the spine of each binder, and mark it: A, B, C, etc.

Count out plastic sleeves, fifty at a time, and put them into the three-ring binders.

Add a sticker to the bottom corner of each side of each plastic sleeve. Mark the labels with the letter designation for the binder and the page number: A1, A2, etc. You'll end up with 100 pages in each binder.

Turn on your computer, grab a handful of paper, and start filing. Label the first piece of paper with A1 in one corner and slide it into the first plastic sleeve.

Now you're going to start an ongoing index for your papers. Think of some categories for the piece of paper you just filed. Say it's an article on herbal remedies for colds. Type:

colds
health
herbal remedies

Think of as many categories as you can; make sure they make sense to you, and make sure you alphabetize them. Now expand on the categories, using your Tab key to indent the subcategories:

Additional information:

Homeopathic remedies are diluted and potentized which creates and energetic. These homeopathic remedies help to prevent as well as alleviate.

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