Organizational Question

[sweetsatingirl]

My current filing system is completely disintigrating. Up until now I have filed all articles by subject, but with the recent volume increase, I cant seem to find anything. I have everything cataloged in EndNotes, but that doesnt really help with physical files. Its amazing how I can keep my client files at work straight (there are 300 different

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[a_treitell]

I keept them by class, and then in date order.. which works best for my brain (I've been awful at updating my biblio programs, and will forget an author or title, but will be able to tell you that it was from so and so's class talking about such and such, so for me it works best..)

[tigg]

ditto for me. I can always remember the class, but can't always remember the article title or author name.

[sweetsatingirl]

What about the things you read that are not course specific?

I have stacks and stacks of stuff on historiography, theory and such. I probably have enough on the Frankfurt School to constitute an entire folder of its own.

[a_treitell]

Then I stick them in a binder by topic and make sure things by the same author are grouped, and topical groupings.

My binders tend to be a mess, but thematic, with stock paper between articles so I just flip through looking for waht I need.

It's not the most effective method, I admit it, but I rarely miss things I want! :D