...[using] a filter to flag the
message for the proper list and archive the message to its proper tag,
which removes it from the inbox and shows it in the tag folder as
unread. This way when I have the time to read through my emails, I
just look at the folders with numbers next to them and read the
messages with subjects the interest me. It is sort of a auto-digest of
sorts. Food for thought.
[The organizer and designer] Ms. Whited said I was the kind of person who needed to see things in front of me or else I forgot I had them. Apparently, I’m not alone.
“More and more people I see aren’t using their filing cabinets, except for archival material,” Ms. Whited said. “It works great for some people — they’re the clean desk people. They take just one thing out at a time. They can focus on one thing at a time. They can put it back in the filing cabinet and take out the next thing they need.”
What I needed, on the other hand, was a system that would allow me to see a lot of my papers and other materials at once, without the chaos of a paper-cluttered desk.
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