Quote Originally Posted by curtis View Post
What is the difference between a general reference and a specialized reference? When should you organized by topic, person, company etc rather than an A-Z alphabetical filing order?
Hey, Curtis,

It depends on your individual needs. Do you work at an office? Maybe keeping separate A-Z systems is a good idea, then, with one at the office and a second at home.

I have one A-Z reference system in a large filing cabinet (I work out of my home). I store our accounting in the same cabinet, but in its own section by year and month. I have all of my manuals filed in a separate box next to the cabinet sorted by type (e.g. large kitchen appliances, hand tools, software etc). So everything for me is in one location, but I do have separations based on content.

I'm also scanning a LOT of my files into Evernote so I can dump the paper and free up some space. So it's really up to you. What makes the best sense for all of your stuff?

Dena