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Organize Your Computer
by
Elizabeth Wells and Melinda Page
 Mark
Lund |
Real Simple, www.realsimple.com
March 2006
You finally have your home office arranged just the way you want it:
a place for every paper clip and every paper clip in its place. But your
computer screen is another story. Icons crowd the desktop, your e-mail
in-box is bursting at its virtual seams, and you can’t find anything.
K. J. McCorry, author of Organize Your Work Day in No Time (Que Publishing,
$17, www.amazon.com), offers these simple tips for keeping your computer
screen tidy.
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Save your desktop for files that need immediate attention.
Stash everything else — including correspondence, spreadsheets,
and that funny video your mom sent — in an appropriate folder
on the hard drive, or just delete it.
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When answering e-mail, rename any messages you save so that
subject lines clearly convey the contents (no more “Re: Re: Fwd:”).
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Think
in an “un-English” manner when naming documents
and photos. For instance, instead of calling something “Letter
to Janet,” label it as “Janet_letter_Nov 3 2005.”
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When
you open a folder or a directory, the files are generally sorted
in alphanumeric order. If you place an underscore (_) at the beginning
of a file name, it will float to the top of the list. (No more scrolling
to find ToDoToday.doc.)
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