With people working from home and diving into self-employment, home offices are quite common. It has been said that at least one in four households have a home office. When is the last time you organized your entire home office (besides when you initially moved in)? If you can’t answer this question, it’s time. With clutter on the kitchen counter, dining room table and other areas of the house, this article in particular is designated to getting the home office organized.
Sometimes this isn’t a task that can be tackled in one day, but with Paper Tiger Filing System Software for document management, these tips can help you make huge strides.
Since you are cleaning out your office, you might as well make sure that you are not storing documents that you no longer need or use. Your organizing system needs to be organized as well, and once you have your Paper Tiger database set up with your paper files indexed, you can print the File Clean-Out report to help you clean out papers from existing files. Also use the Transfer Report to help you physically move documents from one location to another so the documents in your hanging file folders match what you have in Paper Tiger.
These are steps to help you get started. Of course, depending on how cluttered your home office is, it might be quite difficult to clean out your entire home office in one day. Completing one of these steps a day, (in order of course), can ensure a clean and tidy office in less time than you think. Remember to relax and take your time when cleaning your office. Don’t get overwhelmed in organizing your home office. You’ll feel so accomplished and proud, you will want to go from room to room, and maybe even tackle organizing the garage. Happy Organizing!
Tags: Clutter, Declutter, document management software, document management system, filing system software, get organized, paper filing systems, Productivity
I haven’t been using the “Action Files” right. Most of the files there really should be either archived or referenced. What is your recommendation to “fix” my mess up?
Lee,
So assuming that you already have ‘locations’ in Paper Tiger database named archives or reference, then transfer the items from your action location to the appropriate one you want to move each file to.
For the desktop version, please see this knowledge base article that gives instructions for conducting transfers: http://www.thepapertiger.com/support/articles.php?id=361224&catId=231. Also here is a video that has a short clip at the end showing transferring an item: http://www.thepapertiger.com/support/articles.php?id=255964&catId=231.
For the online version, see this knowledge base article for instructions to transfer: http://www.thepapertiger.com/support/articles.php?id=194216&catId=230.
Organizing an office with full of papers is a really typical task. This is really necessary for me to do this on time because if I don’t do this then it will be really hard for me to find out the useful papers from that. Shredders play a really good role in dealing with all these stuff. Thank god that I have got a good one.
Thanks Oliver,
Yes shredders are very necessary in getting organized and staying organized. Piling papers that you don’t need to keep just adds to clutter.