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Hello 43Folders community and Merlin.

I have been reading, and reaping from GTD for the past 4 months and can safely say I am in it for keeps, and what fun it is! I now look forward to my bus journey home through South London and the nightly review, moving my little post-its from one page to another. Definately low-tech but easy-going for this wanabee geek.

Anyway, I have just started on the filing system and am a bit stuck. A scenario: Lucky me I have a few software dev projects on the go and manage the finance as well as the dev apes. I have an alphebetical filing system so where does the invoice go? I for invoice; a finance sub-folder within the project folder? Or maybe in the developer's agency folder?

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance

S

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The colour coding thing that...

Rondolino wrote:
The colour coding thing that chrome47 has got going on is a bit too complicated for me I think, and think I sit on Berko and the Big Man's side of the fence. Remember - kiss (without meaning any offence of course)!

*BUMP* :)

The system is not about the color coding; it's about the organizing. We keep everything we do for our clients organized by client, not by the job number or anything like that. It just happens to be color-coded.

Therefore, our backlog of old project files looks like this:
CLIENT A

  • Job 2003
  • Job 2010
  • Job 2011

CLIENT B

  • Job 2001
  • Job 2009
  • Job 2012

CLIENT C

  • Job 2002
  • Job 2004
  • Job 2030
and so on.

 
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