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October 20, 2005
Noguchi Filing System, Episode 1
Posted by Jonny at October 20, 2005 01:15 AM
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Thanks for putting this together Jonny.
For my attempt (which I need to document, perhaps not with video but at least with a few pictures) I reused a shelf of my bookshelf that's right near my desk. It was helpful in doing things to make sure that there was not very much distance to go to fetch or retrieve a file in that active queue - if I had to walk across the room it might as well go into the filing cabinet.
You note that you are using bookends to keep things from falling over. I cheated and just use books. Sometimes I interfile the books with the files to use the books as bookmarks of sort to note when things happened.
Posted by: Edward Vielmetti at October 20, 2005 02:27 PM
The far right is stagnate.... absolutely. Nice discovery! cheers, I mean kompai..
clark
Posted by: clark saturn at October 20, 2005 02:44 PM
That's so cool & klever!
I'm going to start filing my mess noguchi-style too!
Posted by: Micke at October 20, 2005 05:22 PM
I like it, but if I get rid of the mess, what do I have left?!?
Posted by: schlomo at October 20, 2005 09:02 PM
I'm interested in what people are doing about dates when filing old documents (mainly when instituting the system). Does one put the filing date or the date of the document? What value does the date have later on? My guess is that the title and date together should help you identify what you're looking for, in which case the date should be the date of the document, no?
Jeff
Posted by: Jeff Tupholme at November 20, 2005 02:47 PM
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I'm not far right, but I'm right, and generally migrating rightward. NOT stagnant.
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I'm going to use this Noguchi system for stuff that lies around my desk, and probably convert a bunch of that stuff to more conventional files maybe every week, or every month. SO HOPE to keep desk better cleared off, while not losing track of stuff as it starts its rightward migration.
Posted by: Wesley A Kring at March 14, 2006 12:09 AM
schlomo, good question about the dates.
I tend to put less emphasis on dating my envelopes than (I guess) I should, mainly because I feel uncertain about what date to use. Also sometimes I file together, over time, several papers each with its own "date" which would make any "filing date" that I might have written on the envelope obsolete.
On envelopes that contain manuals/CDs/receipts for, say, an electronic gadget I tend to put the date (year + month) when I aquired the gadget.
I also put all pay-checks, invoices, receipts and such over a certain "logical" period into one envelope and write the date of the period on the outside (say "2005, Jan-Jun).
Then I have several envelopes with no dates on them. Like for example my "Tickets for upcoming events (flights/concerts/conferences/etc.)" envelope. The contents of that envelope are constantly changing (most of the time it's even empty) so no date seems neccessary.
From what I've read about the Noguchi system, You're then "allowed" to sort and categorize your stagnant envelopes when you stash them away somewhere else. It's just the "active" envelopes on your shelf that *must* be sorted by access date from left to right.
Jonny: Here's a photo of my six-months old Noguchi shelf. :-) As you can see prefer to store my envelopes standing up, and I've put colorful stickers on some of the envelopes to make it easier for me to find stuff that's been left untouched for a while. (Yellow==gadget manuals. Red==Legal stuff/contracts. Green==money related.)
Cheers!
Posted by: Már at April 10, 2006 06:33 AM