On Mar 14, 2011, at 1:41 AM, David Parsons wrote: > IMO, using dated folders for permanent storage is kind of a bad idea > if you ever need to find the files in the future.
Can't speak on the authority of much experience filing images, but from long, successful experience maintaining paper files, I've found dates and names -- of people or organizations -- far more effective than topics. That can be remedied by gradually moving in the direction of a fairly standard set of topics. Flexibility and frequent revision at the beginning, and as your thinking about your overall work evolves, will get you there. I once worked for an organization -- a consortium of universities -- that had a one-page alphabetically- and numberically-organized index of its files that allowed for addition of new topics without any other revisions to the index. And they created a completely new set of files at the beginning of every year. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA [email protected] -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
