Organizing Articles

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A Word on Organizing

A Word on "ADD" and Organizing

Why We Need to Organize

On Being Organized: Time Management Skills

Filing System

Creating a Filing System - Introduction

The Left Handed File System

Maintaining Your New System

Organized Categories

How to Set Up Hanging File Folder Tabs

Tackling Those Piles of Paper

Feng Shui

The Art of Feng Shui ~ Introduction

The Art of Feng Shui: The Five Elements

Closet Reorganization

Take Charge of Your Closet

Tackling Your Closets Limited Space

Cocktail Hour Clothing

Children's Organizing

Cube The Clutter in Children's Rooms

Education

Follow The Paper

Red Pencil Fever Original Article

Red Pencil Fever Part Two

Red Pencil Fever Update

Organization Can Get You an "A" in School and in Life

How to Set Up Hanging File Folder Tabs
By Ellen K. Jordan

1. You have your piles of paper with your identifying labels on them.

2. Use one pile as your example. What you have called this becomes your Main Category.

3. This will be the Main Tab, which will be centered in the Hanging File Folder (5 slots in).

4. What this pile includes becomes your Sub-Categories, which make up the tabs on the left hand side of your Hanging File Folders.

In the example below “Dental” has become a Sub-Category included in the Health folder, which is in the Main Category Insurance.

Using this format/procedure you can create your folders according to the method you have chosen.   If Insurance is a Category, it goes in front of Utilities, this keeps the all of the categories in alphabetical order and easy to find. In kind, the sub-categories should also be in alphabetical order to make them easy to find.

Example: