It depends how your system is set up. Remember, your thinking is supposed to go like this:
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I need to find a thing! It’s my tax return from 2018.
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I’ll open my file system because I know it’s going to be there.
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Now, I have at most ten areas that it can be in. Which one is it?
- At this point, if we’ve designed our system properly, there is one and only one obvious place to look. It doesn’t matter if it’s called ‘Finance’ or whatever, the point is that the other areas are all called something that clearly is not where you want to look.
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You’re now in an area, and you repeat the process with the at most ten categories.
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Success.
Ties in with the conversation about a ‘miscellaneous’ folder. Miscellaneous is fine as long as the system above doesn’t break down.