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Filed under computers, electronic filing, information management, organizing, productivity
By Dave Paradi
Every day, individuals spend time trying to find information on their computer. With data being created at ever increasing rates, the volume to search through becomes greater and greater. This causes the search times to grow longer and longer. Information workers spend time finding important customer e-mails in the sea of e-mail that they receive, finding key files on shared drives holding thousands of files, finding the right information in long documents and finding relevant information on the World Wide Web. This delay in locating information reduces productivity, delays crucial decisions and increases the chance that work will be done twice because the previous work cannot be located in a timely manner.
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Filed under computers, electronic filing, information management, organizing
By Janet Barclay, MVA
Have you ever wasted valuable time looking for a document on your computer? You know it’s “there somewhere” but you just can’t seem to find it. You eventually remember to use the Search function, but it takes a long time because you have so many files on your computer, and if you have a large number of documents containing the keyword in question, you spend even more time opening and closing each one until you locate the one you need.
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Filed under computers, electronic filing, email, organizing
By Christina Greenway
As we all know our inboxes have turned into modern day filing systems – and just like in the ‘old’ days they can get chaotic and out of hand in no time. Attempts are made to control the unruly inboxes, but for the most part messages are swept into folders that act as catch alls for everything (unorganized amalgamations of incoherent mess – thank goodness for advanced find!).
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By Marney K. Makridakis
Last weekend, I was waiting for my printer to email me the proof for the current issue of my self-published magazine, Artella, and I knew that I had to make some space in my quite-overstuffed email inbox so that my ISP would accept the file. There are emails that have been there quite a while, as I continue to strive to re-organize my time so that I can write the kind of thoughtful responses that I would like.
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