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Whats your my documents schema?

Hi All.

I had a computer crash the other day, and whilst I am waiting for my data to be returned, I thought it would be a great opportunity for some spring cleaning of my files. I know that there are a lot of you that are far more organised than me so I thought I would share my ideas about the optimal folders schema that will work for me. If any of you can suggest improvements, I would love to hear your suggestions.

Heres the schema(ps I give this as complete creative commons so do with it what you will!)
I have attached the folders as an image.
If there are any great changes I will add them in and zip it up. to share.

grantkemp's picture

agreed

En, I agree with your points.

Regarding documents:
I agree that sofware is not really a document, however I think "my documents "should really be replaced with "my Storage" Things like pictures etc aren't really documents either. My logic behind my current setup is to have 2 modes. One for work and one for personal.

Regarding the "new customer" I want to create mini-schema (or templates) so it should actually read "new company template" and "new supplier template" or even new project template. That way whenever I start a new company/supplier etc. I will just copy and rename the template and have all the folders prepopulated.

Because I will have the same folder names they will always be easily accessible and organised(theoretically)

Whether you are a student, employee or contractor, your data will always fall under that company name, or university name. When you move/ change clients you just copy and rename from the template...

Your home inventory sounds really great. Personally I use Picasa for all my imaging and organising which is why I have excluded pictures from here. Using picasa search I can find any scanned receipt or image in about three clicks (including search)

 
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