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A comment on Ask HN: How do you organize your physical documents at home?.

Re:Ask HN: How do you organize your physical documents at home? by BigEd781 on Tuesday June 29, 2010 @05:02PM (#1472828)
A box. A big box.
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Re:Ask HN: How do you organize your physical documents at home? by sjs382 on Tuesday June 29, 2010 @06:29PM (#1473122)
Seriously.

How often do you need to find mail that you have filed? Once a month or so? How often do you need to file mail? Much more often.

Optimize for many writes and few reads. Just throw everything in a box in chronological order. Everything will be easy enough to find and VERY easy to file. The most you should do is have a couple of boxes for broad categories of stuff to file.

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