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Blog: Surfing the Paper Wave
 11 Questions to Ask When You're Tempted to Save Paper
My absolute favorite book on paper management is Pat Dorff's File, Don't Pile. (Available through this site.) In it, she invites us to ask eleven critical questions about each piece of paper we're tempted to save:
1. Do I WANT it?
2. Do I NEED it?
3. Will it ADD SOMETHING NEW?
4. Is it SIGNIFICANT FOR MY PURPOSES?
5. Do I FORESEE A USE for it?
6. Is it TIMELY?
7. Is it QUALITY?
8. Is it ACCURATE and RELIABLE?
9. Is the AUTHOR AN AUTHORITY on the subject?
10. Is it EASY TO UNDERSTAND?
11. Can I OBTAIN IT ELSEWHERE?
Although Pat wrote her classic in the early 1980s before the proliferation of personal computers and the internet, her questions about paper apply equally well to spreadsheets and word documents, emails and favorite web sites.
That's what a classic is—a work whose value endures.
posted on: 2/10/2008 10:30:00 AM by Suzanne Kuhn
category: Paper
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Suzanne Kuhn is the owner of ACE ORGANIZING, offering affordable, customized, energizing organizing solutions to homes, schools and small businesses in the five-county Philadelphia area and central New Jersey. Although an organizing generalist, (she'll organize anything!) Suzanne has a growing specialty in paper and electronic filing systems and financial organizing. To receive her FREE booklet, 50 TOP TIME MANAGAGEMENT TIPS, email her at [email protected]
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