Your home may be neat, clean and tidy, but that doesn’t mean you really have it organized. A filing system like Paper Tiger Filing System Software for document management will help you get organized, clear the clutter problem and know exactly what you have and where each item in your home or office is located. By using this kind of efficient filing system that allows you to index items, you can make your home office, and every other area of your personal life, as convenient and organized as your office workspace. The only thing you will have to decide is how you would like to categorize your life before starting your home filing system.
Think of it just like organizing your work space, in that everything usually has a proper place or compartment it could fit into. Or, think of it like a department store where you would know where to go to look for whatever item it is you wanted to buy. Then, apply this to your home.
You may already have a home office and maybe even a filing system for your paper files of some sort in place, but that doesn’t mean you can find the specific file you need from your filing cabinet. Of course, even if it is working, using an improved method of filing system to make it work even more efficient is a good idea. See our blog post “Customize Your Filing System with Paper Tiger’s Indexing Method” for a better understanding on how to improve your paper filing system.
And what about your CDs and DVDs and books? Are they organized so that you won’t have to search for a long while to find the one you need?
Now, divide up your home or individual rooms by thinking of each area as an office that needs to be compartmentalized.
It could be the craft room so you can keep track of the contents of each of the bins with craft supplies. Imagine being able to find out which bin the sienna red paint is in without having to open every single container in the room to hunt for it. Or, maybe, instead of a room you select an item, such as clothing. Using a filing system would help you keep track of clothing in closets, the attic for seasonal clothing and maybe even another area in the home or in a storage unit somewhere. Imagine being able to locate your kids winter coats without driving to a rented storage unit and realizing, after an unproductive search, you must have stored them in the attic this time.
Basically anything that you can put a number onto to match the item number from Paper Tiger’s database. Maybe you are an avid collector of some sort of memorabilia as a hobbyist. That means you have items on display, items boxed up in different areas of the house, maybe even items on consignment for sale somewhere. The problem is, how can you keep track of what is where without an effective filing system software?
If you do take things to consignment or elsewhere, especially if you have certain items for sale at different places, trying to keep record of it all can be overwhelming and frustrating. By using a filing system that can easily prompt you from your computer as to where an item is, you can locate one of your collectibles in less than a minute. With filing systems that have digital technology you can even use the system with mobility by using a portable device, such as an Apple iPad, to do your search. So, if you are out and about and need to know, you won’t have to wait till you get back to your home computer.
No more lost items! Doesn’t that sound good? All you do is take the time to enter the data relating to the items you would like organized and then you can conduct a quick Google-like search in the software database and find any of your belongings at the time you need them instead of having a time-consuming search from room to room. Implement Paper Tiger Filing System Software for document management and see for yourself how quickly you can get organized!
