How to organize paperwork?

If you're comfortable with electronic, or willing to learn, it's farm more productivity to use an electronic solution -- and there are many, such as www.iPEPonline.com. However, if you prefer paper, I suggest a combination of index cards instead of Post-its (they're cheaper and easier to manage)and www.SwiftFile.com

For daily paperwork, you must remember that "clutter is postponed decisions". Every time you handle an item (paper, electronic or other), make a decision about the next action. My daily tickler file is Swiftfile (https://m232.infusionsoft.com/go/swiftfileplus/spandrio/); but I, too, use iPEP daily to capture ideas, information and manage projects.

I also have a lot of paperwork. I like to have two piles that papers immediately go into when I get it.
The first pileis the immediate attention pile and I sort that pile out before I do anything else - everything gets attended to and placed in their files.

The other pile is attended to later in the day - I set aside a specific time of the day to attend to these.

The trick is to have a good filing system and place your papers into it as soon as you sort them, then go through it every month and throw out anything that you will not be using, and placing long term stuff into a seperate file.

Sounds complicated but it is important to keep everything where you can find it easily and not to allow clutter to build up.

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Hi

I am ultra ungorganised naturally and run several projects at once so have to rebel against myself.

This is what I do.

Incoming paperwork
I try and save as much as possible onto PDF and have a filing system on my computer under office then accounts and the year of accounts. I have three folders here accounts, purchases and sales. In the purchases and sales folder I have added and not added folders. I simply save to the not added when I bug and move it over when I have added them to my account sheet.

For paper work offline
I have an expanding folder with labels on bank, credit card, utilities, invoices etc you can get about 20 different categories in the large expanding files and as soon as something comes in it goes straight into there.

Jobs I need to do.
I have a little box I bought from paperchase but a shoe box will do and a little note pad. I have divided the box into 4 sections and labelled then 1, 2, 3 and 4 to represent urgent and important, urgent not important, not important and urgent, not urgent not important. I put my job on a the little note pad (same size as a postit) and pop it in the relevant square and go through the jobs as I pull them out of the box in order of the 1, 2, 3, 4. This way I naturally prioritise and get more done.

Hope this helps