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- Welcome to the most exciting video that you are ever going to watch. Yes, it is. And what will we be covering you ask? Sports cars, explosions, the top 10 most dangerous bees? Even better, file organization. Oh yes friends. Buckle up because this is going to be one wild ride. And especially I have access to all this explosion footage which I am going to apply liberally throughout this video. (explosion) Now I should say that this is 1/2 of a wild ride because there are in fact two halves to your file system. The files that exist in your computer, and the ones that exist here in the real world. And if you're anything like me, most of the files exist digitally. And we're gonna cover exactly how to organize them in the next video in the series. But due to my very intense study on game design principles, I have learned that it is best to start off with the easier stuff. So today we're gonna focus on your physical file system. Now my personal physical file system is pretty small and that is because whenever I get a piece of paper, my first instinct is to either recycle it immediately or digitize it and then of course recycle it. And later on on this video, we're gonna talk all about digitization and how to do it easily. But sometimes you're gonna have physical files that you just need to keep for one reason or another. Perhaps, it's your birth certificates or your passport. Or that clipping of a newspaper article that mentioned you back in the eighth grade. Gotta keep that for posterity's sake. Whatever it is, it is time to organize it. So when it comes to storing physical files, I use a simple system that consists of three locations. The main file box, the inbox and a portable file folder. The main file box is the place where the majority of your physical files should eventually end up, if you're not going to digitize them. And if you have a lot of papers you need to store, you could buy a multi-drawer filing cabinet for this purpose. However, I find that a single file box is more than enough for me. And this is what it looks like. And now you know why the continuity arrow was there. Now this file box, and pretty much every single other one like it is built to store hanging folders, each of which gets a label. And that's how you can easily see what's in them. Now when you're creating your structure here, I think it's a good idea to try to adhere to a tree structure where you have a top level of organization, which is essentially your root and then for which you can create multiple, deeper sub-levels or branches. And personally, I use these hanging file folders as the top level of my organization system. I don't really have a whole lot of files so that's really all I need. Though there are ways that you could go deeper if you need to. The first is to simply put multiple, regular folders within your hanging folders. And I actually do have an example of this because my landlord left this entire file box with the house that I'm renting because she is...