Take a moment.

Imagine yourself in a futuristic setting a la Buck Rogers or George Jetson;

All of your mundane tasks are done for your by your staff of robots;

The dishes are washed;

The beds are made;

You have a magical machine that helps you organize all of your day to day affairs and personal information…..

Now…quickly, find your resume and the most recent picture of you and your brother…

Waiting….

Waiting…

Still waiting…

Geez, how long is it taking you?

What’s that you say, your computer files are a little disorganized? Well, your probably not alone.

Here are a few quick tidbits to help you get that paperless pile of off your desktop and into its proper place

• Keep those pictures where you can find them;
• Learn to use your computer’s filing system; and
• The lazy man’s approach.

Keep it Neat!!!

for simple solutions. this may be it.

Keep It Neat!!!

Caught under a deluge of mail?

Downpour of paperwork?

A puddle of business cards?

Try the following quick solution to stem the tidal wave of mess that is drowning your desk

1. Once a week, at a regularly scheduled time, enter new contact information into your database/rolodex/card binder;
2. Articles of interest/required readings - Everyone has articles they need to read in order to say current with their professional activities.  Earmark them with sticky notes. Read them during your spare time (or when you want to fool those around you that you are actually busy);
3. Use a desktop vertical file folder for tasks/projects you currently have on the go.  Organize these files by project name;
4. Open your mail when it comes in!!! Don’t let it pile up. You would be amazed how much of that important mail has junk in it too. If possible, contact organizations that send you bills on a regular basis and ask them not to put any extraneous material in it; and
5. THROW OUT ANYTHING THAT YOU DO NOT NEED!!!

Keep It Neat!!!

Welcome back to Project Disaster. In case you missed the first installment of this project, you can read about it here

Wow, this place is a mess.

So, in order to make this a manageable task for the desk’s owner, we are going to break this task into chunks.

While there is a pile of stuff to get through here, planning is important to make sure that all of this paper has a place to go and is not just shoved in a filing cabinet.

In an business environment, paper comes into an office in the following ways:

• Mail
• Fax
• Computer Generated

Paper must then be acted on and filed away.

For now, we will be happy with just getting the in box up and running.

As with all situations, each requires a little bit of customization. And here, one of the factors that we need to deal with is that there are two businesses being run out of this office, with some paperwork being specific to each business and some is just related to the operation of the office itself.

So what we need is something with 3 sections that can function as an in-box. We are going to have one rule for this in box, what comes in to the in box, goes out of the inbox…within 24 hours!

While, this current “Floor Filing System” is far from good, there seems to be some organization to it in that most of the paper is currently piled into meaningful categories - phone bills, shipping bills, etc, which makes getting all of this paper into the inbox in a organized way a little easier.

It also makes the next step, building the filing system, a little easier as well

Keep it Neat!

OK, that may be a bit of an exageration.

But never the less the System180 from Futureproof/ed is kinda neat…in an austere, minimalist sort of way

System 180—a smart system consisting of 180 mm tubes with flattened ends, allows for anything to be build from a combination of three base-elements, the tubes, screws and blanks.

Perfect for building a bookshelf

Organizer (on your right)
Or DJ table (on your left)…What, your office doesn’t have a DJ busting out tunes? Maybe you need to find a new place to work.

System180 from Futureproof/ed

Keep it Neat!

Ever write something down and forgot where you put it?

Or have you ever come up with a brilliant idea and need a place to scribble down your thoughts?

Pixelnotes could be your answer…

Designed by Duncan Wilson in collaboration with Sirkka Hammer or Sirkka Hammer in collaboration with Duncan Wilson (seems to be a bit of confusion over this), Pixelnotes is a wallpaper consisting of four layers of varying grey tones on a bright primary backing.

Each layer is perforated in a grid format and backed with a tacky adhesive similar to ‘post-it’ notes. According to Wilson “Pixelnotes is inspired by the way we work within a space. The walls become functional, an integrated noticeboard that documents our activity within the room. Pixelated formations and shapes develop according to our patterns of use.”

We think it is pretty neat!