A very cool filing system

So at enrichment this week we were taught a different way of filing papers of any topic. Supplies needed: A FILE BOX, ALPHABETICAL FILING CARDS...A-Z, INDEX CARDS AND MANILA FOLDERS, AND A LOT OF PAPERS OR PHOTOS TO ORGANIZE. The first manila folder write #'s 1-25 on it. The next Manila folder will have #26-50 on it and the next one #51-75 on it...get the idea. So how the system works;


you gather any papers of any topic. You then write a #1 on the first article you put into your Manila folder.

My paper is a paper about organizing and filing systems. So on my index card I write #1 and then under that all the topics that relate to my article. So #1- Filing System, organizing. So I put that index card under "F" for filing system and I make another one for "O" because Organizing is another one of my topics so I make a index card on organizing and write the article # and the topics under that article.
So your index cards could look like this (example)
Organizing
#1- organizing, filing system
#14- organizing, food storage
#26-organizing, home office
So then you create cross references to the other index cards like, "f" for food storage etc.
In your Manila folders your first article or paper could be on organizing when your #2 paper is an article from conference that you enjoyed and
#3 could be house plans you like




So it doesn't matter what papers go into the Manila folder, any topic. You just # the articles in the first Manila folder 1-25 and then reference them in your index cards



So now when you need to find something for a talk at church or a lesson you need to give or that piece of art work you were so proud that your son made, you just go to your index box and look it up. I hope I explained this OK. it is really an ingenious way to get organized of all of those papers, pictures, etc. lying around. I still keep my financial things in their own folders but practically everything else can be filed this way. Good luck and have fun organizing!