Making a file plan for myself
I have some time to spare before the start of my internship in a research library and during that time I managed to bring back alive one of my old computer. While I was waiting for it to make all the updates it didn't do during a year and a half, I decided I had to come up with a file plan for myself.
File plan (or classification scheme) are the root of all documentation work because we not only have to record information but also retrieve it, we then use systems to organize those informations in order to make them retrievable, understandable and usable.
In order to apply that to my own informations I had to start with a few questions : What do I need ? What do I have to organize ? In which format (digital, physical) ? Where do I keep them (local saves, a cloud, in a binder, ...) ? To anwser those questions I have made a mindmap.
Now that I got the structure in a tree diagram I have to do the worse part of this process : go through all my files collected in years to classify them in each sections. It'll be time consuming.
Honestly, I just wanted to share that because as a very unorganized person in my life, but I tend to be more efficient in my work anyway (maybe because I know my flaw in that specific area). I'll probably add later the structure I came up with for that matter.
