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Filing without cabinets?

mcnicks | Apr 16 2006

Now that I have sorted out my filing and contexts at work, I am planning to do the same thing at home. My only problem is that I do not really have space for a filing cabinet. What I do have is a set of shelves, so I was pondering whether I could file stuff into a) box folders or b) transfer cases.

Has anybody implemented a filing system without using a filing cabinet before? Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated...

Thx,
David

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