I have been working on organising my JD system into my filing cabinet. I love the system but what a bore dealing with paperwork. It was quite mentally draining but it will be worth it when done.
I will share my end result and process when it is completed. I like to start and stop projects a lot 
this won’t be finished today for sure 
I’ve actually done this. I have hanging files for each category and currently everything just goes in those without further organization. If I had more stuff to put in there, I’d probably add manila folders inside the hanging files for particular IDs. Good luck!
Maybe @Alex can give you some inspiration and share the spreadsheet that we were talking about the other day…
Thanks. TBH, I totally regret getting the plastic wallets, or at least purchasing as many as I did. I decluttered a lot of paperwork today. The plastic wallets do not fit a lot in, which is ideal for some documents but others such as my daughter’s medical…an absolute pain! I have the hanging folders too, using them as the category where possible and an individual hanging folder for the big ID stuff like my daughter’s medical.
PAPER paperwork is so tedious. I did go through some emails today too. Really went through all the medical and mental health stuff and legal documents for child custody etc. It was really hard to separate the mental stuff from the medical and uhhh just not fun at all.
Ohh yes please to @Alex
This is not a solution but perhaps still useful: have you heard of Paperless?
Paperless-ngx is a community-supported open-source document management system that transforms your physical documents into a searchable online archive so you can keep, well, less paper.
You need to keep some important paperwork in the original form but in reality, most of the time all you need is a PDF copy. So scan it and archive it, and then use Paperless if/when you ever need it.
Most other paperwork is even easier: scan it and throw it away! Then use your Paperless archive in case you ever need to look it up. That will be easier, too, because of full-text search, tags, and sorting.
All you need is a good document scanner and a computer to host your archive. This blog post tells more, if you’re curious.
Here’s how I game-a-fied my document digitisation. The issue is that I’ve dutifully scanned in documents for years as they come into my workflow, but the process of then saving those scans to the appropriate location and giving the documents a filename was the part I neglected.
So I made this spreadsheet that I use to track progress each day to track how I’m going if I want to finish by the end of the year. I’ve got three things I’m tracking:
I just update the totals each day. The tracker looks like this…
…and the report and graph looks like this…
I’ve uploaded a copy if you want to use it. Just update the dates, numbers, and headings. It’s here
Better get on with some more saving!
Thanks, I love this idea, but I am happy to scan on Dropbox instead of adding another subscription or software programme I need to learn lol. But I am very inspired by this idea and sure the links will be helpful for others who are cooler than me!
This is a great idea, thank you
