Organizational Framework Assessable by Creator Only, Produces Consistent Results
PARIS — The filing system developed by Claire Moreau — whose checkout charity position, coupon tracking, and sale price documentation have been established — has been described by Claire’s sister as “seventeen folders whose names reference a logic system that Claire has not written down and that exists fully in Claire’s understanding and partially in the folder names and not at all in a way that allows anyone else to find anything.” Claire describes the same system as “completely logical once you understand the categories.”
The categories include: “active ongoing things,” “ongoing but less active,” “was active, waiting,” “reference for the active things,” “reference that is not for the active things but is related,” and “miscellaneous important.” The seventh category is “other.” The other category contains 847 documents. The miscellaneous important category contains 23. The active ongoing things category contains 127. The system covers Claire’s professional and personal administration across six years.
The Retrievability Test
The retrievability test — conducted by Claire’s sister who asked to find a specific insurance document from 2021 — produced a 4-minute search whose successful conclusion Claire attributes to the system and whose path her sister describes as: “she looked in five folders, said ‘no that’s not right,’ then found it in ‘other,’ which is the seventh category, which is not what insurance suggests but is where it was.” The system is retrievable by Claire. The system retrieves insurance from other. The insurance is retrieved.
According to Psychology Today’s personal organisation research, idiosyncratic filing systems are retrievable at high rates by their creators and at low rates by other users. Claire’s retrieval rate is excellent. Her sister’s rate was 4 minutes for one document. The system works for its designer. The 847 items in other are available.
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