Uneasy Rhetoric

Carl doesn’t just arrange matches, he’s gotten into the lifehacking habit! He suggests that we toss all of our old user manuals and get PDFs of them instead. Then when you need one, it’s right there on your computer!

Carl also recommends a desktop search utility - which means you won’t even need to remember your personal folder hierarchy. I haven’t gotten that far yet on my own computer, mostly because the files I need to search most often are email, and I keep my email online. Still, my collection of miscellany in “My Documents” grows by the week, and sooner or later I’m going to get fed up with the whole “folder” thing. Long ago, even before I read Getting Things Done, before gmail made it fashionable, I was arranging my email in one folder (okay, one by year) and relying on search tools to get what I needed.