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 Straight-Line Tab Filing – Choice of Professionals
Straight-line tab filing is the preferred choice of professional organizers. The concept and benefits of straight-line tab filing for your folders was introduced to me by Julie Morgenstern in her book Organizing from the Inside Out. As you see in the photo below, straight-line tab filing means all the tabs are in a straight-line. There are three main benefits:
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It is much easier on the eyes to scan tabs looking in one direction vs scanning back and forth when you have a tab on the left side, then middle, then right-side, then left-side, then middle, then right-side, etc. Left to right quick scanning can almost make you dizzy
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Tabs all in a straight line appear less cluttered
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Biggest benefit: straight-line tabs are significantly easier to maintain. It is almost impossible to maintain the left, middle, right pattern when you need to add a new folder. Adding a new file folder to a straight-line tab filing system is fast and effortless
Tips to Set-Up a Straight-Line Tab System
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You can buy a box of folders with tabs in one position, or if you buy folders with tabs in all three positions, turn the right-tabbed folders inside out and use them as left tabs
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If you need to differentiate between two categories of folders, you can make one category left-tabbed and the other category right-tabbed (see the picture below - note, if you can't view the photo, click here to see it on my website).
posted on: 3/21/2011 8:30:00 AM by Heather Cocozza
category: Business
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About Heather:
Heather Cocozza, PMP, CPO® is a Professional Organizer who organizes and designs tailored home and office solutions. She is on the National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO)-WDC Board of Directors 2009-2010 and is the owner of Cocozza Organizing & Design, LLC. Prior to her organizing career, Heather Cocozza worked 13 years at IBM and PricewaterhouseCoopers as an ERP Project Manager and at times traveled extensively while her "virtual" twins were between the ages of 0 to 3.
Heather's Website:
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