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From: Steve Hayes
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:16

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On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:02:05 +0100, "Roger Donne"
<roger@donne.free-online.co.uk> wrote:

>Steve Hayes' solution to the indexing of paper files seems quite attractive 
>but the idea of sequential numbering would not fit well with my expanding 
>collection of lever-arch files, organised in categories, which are often 
>reorganised as they overflow.  However, I would like to try it, if anyone 
>can suggest a Windows alternative to RDF.

The advantage of the numerical record is that there ARE no categories --
though if you want to have them you can record them in the software. So, for
example, if the document is a will, you would descirbe it "Will of John Doe"
and then you can search for "Will", and it will produce a list of documents in
that categoryu - which might be Numbers 23, 87, 377, 856 and 1043

On the back of my lever-arch files I write "Docs 1-150" "Docs 151-400" or
whatever, and store them together. So I search for the documents on the
computer, and reach over and find the relevant file. When one lever arch file
is full, I start a new one. 

-- 
Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
Web:  http://hayesfam.bravehost.com/stevesig.htm
Blog: http://methodius.blogspot.com
E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk

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