I guess everyone has faced the problem when one can't remember the the filename or storage location of a document that is needed. Sometimes the time wasted in searching for a document is even more than amount of time that one was supposed to work on that document which questions one's method of storing and naming documents or files.
If the particular file was not found as mentioned in case above, it concludes that one should work on his ability to organize. Some tips that will help are mentioned hereon; The first and the easiest is group your files into folders and in the further more deeper in nested folders. All document formats can be converted to PDF like you may convert word to PDF. Another easy thing that can be done is giving unique names to your files and then also update the document properties as there is a good chance of having documents with similar names.
It won't be possible to organize your documents overnight so devise the whole work into daily tasks and execute it one step at a time. Those who have a natural habit of organizing would not face much problem but others would have to somehow devise a system to maintain the order of organizing.
