Organize Your Office, Cut the FAT

I'm not sure where I first heard about this idea; from a book, perhaps. The idea is simple but has been effective at helping me clear my work space of all the clutter.

FAT stands for File, Act, or Trash. With each item on your desk, each folder, each piece of paper, you need only consider which of three things you will do with it. Either you file the item, you act on it, or you throw it in the trash.

For me, filing an item means putting it in a filing cabinet, locking it in a safe, or writing about it on this site and then tossing the original page.

Using this simple idea I can generally put everything on my desk into 3 piles that I can deal with quickly and easily.

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