My Organized Biz

Do you have favorite colors you use in your orginazional techniques?  Are these colors that you like?  Are they traditional colors for specific topics?  Do you designate categories with colors, groups of people with colors, different topics with colors, specific years with colors, etc.?  Or do you use the same color for everything?  Do certain people in your office/business have their own color?
Here are items that often come into play with color coding in organizing:

Paper clips
File folders
Hanging folders
Sticky notes
Notepaper
Memo sheets
3 x 5 and other file cards
Photocopy paper
In/out files
Filing cabinets

I like to organize with different colors.  Now just to get everything …read more

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It seems such a simple practice that it’s not worth mentioning.  But I’ve discovered many people comment, “Why didn’t I think of that!”
Decide upon a color for various topics in your files, then code anything pertaining to each with a particular color…whether it’s the ink you use for writing on the file folder, the color of the label, the paper clips you use (some come in various colors), even the color of the folders themselves.
When I was researching and writing a resource book for writers, my editor set up a filing system for my research by color coding the labels on …read more

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