How Do You Set Up A Manual Filing System?
Set up a manual filing system for your piles of handouts, newspaper clippings and magazine articles. Assemble a stack of documents that will fit comfortably in the file folder. Write the number “1” in the upper right-hand corner of the top article in the pile. Then place it in the folder. Do the same for the other documents, numbering the second doc “2”, the third “3”, etc. Once all the documents are numbered, write the range of article numbers on the folder tab. For example, if there were 25 articles, write “1-25”. Repeat this process with the second folder’s worth of documents, and label its tab “26 -50”, or whatever the range ends up being. Place all the loaded folders into a file cabinet or storage box for easy access. Insert the alphabetized/tabbed index cards in the card box. Write the number “1” in the upper right-hand corner of a blank index card. Look at Article #1 in the “1-25” folder. Write the topic of the paper on the top line of that index card. Then put the card in the p
