![]() ![]() (Not IKEA-level difficult, but enough to make you contribute to the office curse jar.) They’re often uneven in height, so they wobble like a table in a bad restaurant - but you can’t fix them by wedging sugar packets underneath. “You can buy after-market hanging file systems.” Well… “Not a problem,” the vendors and garage sale purveyors promise. But some down-market, cheaper filing cabinets and older desks have drawers with no rails at all. Most filing cabinets and file drawers have built-in hanging file rails for letter and/or legal sized hanging folders. To this list, I add the after-market hanging file system. ![]() (Do you install lazy Susans and keep items in more easily reachable open-top tubs, or do you just struggle?) Cabinet shelves that are too deep to reach more than the front half, or stuck in corners where it’s too dark and tight to reach anything at all.(Do you leave piles of un-filed papers until you get around to buying the color folder you need?) Color-coded systems that break down every time you run out of a red folder.(Do you research a replacement app? Do you stop get technical help? Do you just live with the annoyance?) Apps that auto-quit every third time you select them.(Do you stop to fix or replace the stapler? Do you end up using a paper clip that makes your folders lumpy or grabs up too many pieces of paper at once?) Staplers that put a crimp in every staple so that only one side of it “takes” and the other fails to attach.Think about some of the physical things that slow you down: It’s funny then, when I spend so much time downplaying the tangible resources in favor of the behavioral, that I’m talking today about organizing and productivity supplies, especially ones that don’t work. You can have a seemingly ideal set-up of tubs on shelves, or digital files in a logical hierarchy, but if you always toss your craft supplies on the dining table or save every download to your computer’s desktop, no brilliant and pristine system can help you. That’s because one’s behavior, one’s ability to stick to a system and to make changes only when something has been analyzed and found wanting, is the ultimate key. Usually, I’m cautioning people not to rely too much on the physical - the shelves or the tubs or the apps or the tools. As a professional organizer, I spend a good deal of time explaining to people that organization and productivity require two kinds of systems, physical and behavioral. ![]()
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