Managing Your Digital Files

This is a new year and it comes new challenges. One of these challenges may be de-cluttering your digital environment (yes, your digital area, such as your computer).

Experience with clients has taught me that often someone has more clutter on computer than in their home or office.The computer can be a source of great enjoyment and productivity if you organize files on it regularly. I realize that it does not take up any real space in your home or office, which is probably the reason that people just ignore it, but I found that it has a huge impact on my clients satisfaction and productivity.

Sure there are a ton of books on using the computer but I discovered that there is not a simple and straightforward explanation of keeping on top of where everything is on the computer. Here is the basics of what I show my clients:

Get into the habit of creating folders on your computer for a variety of  topics. Put everything relevant to each topic into the appropriate folder.

Create more folders within existing topic folders for sub-topics, such as creating a folder for Health. In this folder, you may have folders for subtopics as in Diet, Pharmaceuticals, and Natural Health, just to name a few.

Spend time on the process of organizing your digital files. Trust me, in the long haul, you will finally feel that you can organize files on your computer very well and feel better about finding what you need instead of digging through the digital clutter!

Next post...The Confession of an ex-Digital File Hoarder....

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