I'm currently backing up my hard drive at work. As the ever too slow process of copying files continues on it's merry way, I began to consider my file "organization." It's logical... ...to a point.
I have a folder called "projects". Inside that folder, I have three folders call "completed", "current", and "dropped". Each with contents appropriate to their names... ...at least to a point. I often find that I have projects in my current folder that have been dropped or completed, or I find projects in the completed and dropped folder that have been brought back into the queue to be current again.
Beyond that I noticed that I have tons of folders with seemingly descriptive names that are only as descriptive as what I remember about thos names.
Then it hit me. The Epiphany of the day! What if I had stored a ton of information in the folders about each of these projects! That would be the day... I could have stored who the project was for, when they wanted it, the tasks I needed to do, how many of those I had done, what was left to be done, when did they cancel the project (if they did), and maybe even a short description of what all is involved.
Tons of information that would be very useful if...
But alas, the information didn't get stored. I wonder why? Was I in a hurry? Did I have other projects waiting to be done? Was the process of collecting that information too insurmountable at the time? Would I have done it if the method of gathering it had been better?
I'm not really sure. 8o) I would like to have the opportunity to try though. 8o)
I know some ways to solve the problem. Now to the implementation, but more on that later. 8o)
Posted by TheIdeaMan at January 28, 2003 04:44 PM