How To Organize Your File-Manager, Social Media, Physical Environment, Etc (Barbell #11)

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In the previous article, I mentioned the four friends or characteristics that the most successful organizational system has:

• Search
• Favorites
• Hyperlinks
• Random Generator

Let’s discover how we can apply these friends outside the note-taking app. Although your preferred tool (Mem.ai) is the main gateway for information, there are still other interfaces that need to be dealt with.

File Manager

Your file manager (Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, local hard drive) is necessary for storing various types of files. There is no silver bullet, unfortunately, but two methods of effective organization:

The first method is to create two folders only. The first one is called Favorites and the other Archives. You keep your most referred files in favorites and move over every obsolete one to the other.

Outside of these folders, you simply create each new file in the main menu (Downloads, NOT Desktop in your local hard drive). Sort the list by recently edited. You want your file…