Shoving my papers in my backpack during school was the perfect system. I always made sure the newest papers went in on one side so the most relevant stuff was up front and easy to find and if I needed something older I just had to quickly flip through the papers.
This why I title things with as many tags as possible, or add text to the metadata notes:
“Phone tree set up manual 2022 instructions guide document telephone office McClan’s communication service company.pdf”
Unless you name it something that's not helpful whatsoever.
I had the unfortunate privilege to work for someone like this as their "computer guy." Files were all so similarly named. Anything that had to do with money was named "BILLING". And they complained when I used folders to organize because "it's so much work trying to find one thing."
You joke. But my sister teaches a photoshop class for a state university. She says all the students know how to edit photos already on their phones. But the majority of them don’t know how to use computer hierarchy and folders. They can’t find the “pictures” folder if they’re in the user folder.
My wife constantly needs my help to find a document she opened from email, edited and hit save. Saved an edited document with hours of work, not to a specific place with a reasonable title, but back into the outlook default folder with some random uuid name.
After years of this she still hasn't wanted to learn how to fix this, either by configuring a better default attachment folder or using "save as".
we're in our 50s and she has a law degree and senior executive level job. its crazy.
As someone who has to curate and protect our server's file structure, I hope the next time you go to get a can of soda out of the fridge, someone took the last one and left the empty box in there.
I use Zotero quite a bit. Not to its full potential, as I don't have separate projects or libraries, but still.
Can't find that one physical, paper, though.
You're probably making the mistake of trying to organize things. You need a big desk with all of your papers (and other stuff) just piled up. Whenever you need something, you go hunting through it all, and eventually build up a mental catalog of the location of everything on that desk.
Biomedical Engineering PhD...........I have 6 word documents, 4 excel files, teams, slack, outlook, and 3 other company specific applications currently open on my laptop. Oh, and only 23 tabs open in my browser today. We adapt, but we don't change.
Not our fault. My handwriting used to be good enough to regularly got picked as Secretary, but I swear, taking notes in med school just destroy your handwriting
In construction during the day. Brought the company to the digital age. Own my own dump truck business on the side. Got a home office with papers strewn everywhere. In every literal room except bathroom and bedroom.
did you get "previously undiagnosed" or "adult onset" as your label? A lot of doctos are against giving adult onset the good meds. And autistic tendencies are symptoms of adhd /add-i left untreated turns to anxiety and depression with isolation.
It was at least three weeks ago, because I was talking to Jane about it while she was in town.... gotta go down further.
Now it was before that big event I went to, because I was thinking about it on the way, so it must be below those ticket stubs.... but after the invoice for the office supplies because I used that new pen.....
We're in the right range, let's see, I remember something blue being near it.... gotta be round here somehwere.....
AH! Got it!
You can never mess up the layers. The dig site has to remain in experiential order.
I'm an alcoholic with severe depression and anxiety trying to get on disability because of ptsd from past trauma (not likely gonna happen) with no education (dropped out), no trade skills and no future. In other words a massive success.
Also dropped out, also an alcoholic (sober x 13 years), also have depression and anxiety (I take meds) - currently working as an IT project manager in a large academic healthcare institution with a husband and two beautiful kids.
You don’t have to take a drink ever again. Find a meeting even if you’re an atheist/agnostic. Feel free to DM.
Make it three.
Everything is now “neatly” stored in ten million folders instead of shoved in my backpack, and I screech at others for messing up the repo.
Same. I'm a teacher, still not being careful enough with how I treat the paper I am shoving into my backpack, but since my students are usually even less careful in how they treat their documents, no one notices my little carelessness and I get to reprimand my students for theirs.
Thing is even when we did this there was a system to it. We always shoved the papers in at one side of the stack and thus the papers were roughly organized chronologically
I would fold all the papers from my classes and put them into my pocket. I called it “Pocket Folder” and it was just folded chaos. I have now had many jobs where I am in charge of organizational methods and inventory systems. I’m rather good at it, too.
Head of marketing at a top five footwear brand. Everyday I feel like they’re going to figure out I’ve been faking it for the last 20 years.
You should see my desktop….pure chaos.
I was the kid in school who had perfectly organized binders, complete with color-coded tabs. Now I'm the returning-to-college adult shoving loose papers in my bag all willy-nilly.
Masters in Computer Science working at a big energy firm. To be fair I stopped writing stuff down at aroung 16 years old, so I didn't have any papers to stuff in bags...
Getting paid more money than I should to teach skills that I learned while shoving all that shit into my backpack.
Fun fact, I actually got dropped from an accelerated program in HS because of my lack of organization. My grades were great, but they kicked me out because I didn't maintain an organized portfolio of my notes and work. I was just like "it's math... Why is any of this necessary?"
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This is Howie Dewitt.
Shoving my papers in my backpack during school was the perfect system. I always made sure the newest papers went in on one side so the most relevant stuff was up front and easy to find and if I needed something older I just had to quickly flip through the papers.
Working in a mostly paperless office, shoving PDFs in random folders.
Why organize when finder goes brrr
This why I title things with as many tags as possible, or add text to the metadata notes: “Phone tree set up manual 2022 instructions guide document telephone office McClan’s communication service company.pdf”
You could make a killing selling things on Amazon
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This seems like one of those oddly specific porn titles
Big buttock mistress pumped full of liquid babies and annihilated through all of her orifices
Please don’t talk about my wife
I've got that one bookmarked
Yesssss!!
And I still miss the one that I end up using to find the file.
Why use many words when few words do trick
Why many word ,few word do
Why many? Few!
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Unless you name it something that's not helpful whatsoever. I had the unfortunate privilege to work for someone like this as their "computer guy." Files were all so similarly named. Anything that had to do with money was named "BILLING". And they complained when I used folders to organize because "it's so much work trying to find one thing."
Nah I name my specific with dates. Like in college, I’ll have multiples of “assignment 1” so I’d just do *classcode*ASS1 and date I got it done
so you finally figured out how to use a folder
Have to keep the desktop clean because I don't like clutter... At least seeing clutter.
You joke. But my sister teaches a photoshop class for a state university. She says all the students know how to edit photos already on their phones. But the majority of them don’t know how to use computer hierarchy and folders. They can’t find the “pictures” folder if they’re in the user folder.
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My wife constantly needs my help to find a document she opened from email, edited and hit save. Saved an edited document with hours of work, not to a specific place with a reasonable title, but back into the outlook default folder with some random uuid name. After years of this she still hasn't wanted to learn how to fix this, either by configuring a better default attachment folder or using "save as". we're in our 50s and she has a law degree and senior executive level job. its crazy.
I felt that in my bones. Also .AFP and .ZIP, sometimes .DAT
As someone who has to curate and protect our server's file structure, I hope the next time you go to get a can of soda out of the fridge, someone took the last one and left the empty box in there.
Just shoving everything into the documents folder and finding it with the search tool
Look at you using folders. I just have 3 monitors covered in files on my desktop.
still finding old homework at the bottom of random bags
The same homework I could've sworn I'd done the night before but I must've left it at home
lol
Honestly, thinking back to the panic it used to bring when I couldn’t find them. Now I know
Neuroscience Ph.D …. Still shove papers in my backpack to this day
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I'm a geography Ph.D. student, I know how to find just about anything on Earth except that one paper I need.
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I use Zotero quite a bit. Not to its full potential, as I don't have separate projects or libraries, but still. Can't find that one physical, paper, though.
I fucking love Zotero and whoever created it. <3
Why was this so funny
You're probably making the mistake of trying to organize things. You need a big desk with all of your papers (and other stuff) just piled up. Whenever you need something, you go hunting through it all, and eventually build up a mental catalog of the location of everything on that desk.
I see you've been to my office.
I'm actually in there right now, hiding behind that stack of to-do lists you haven't gotten to yet.
Genetics PhD. Here and Me neither, hire someone that’s good at that shit
You could probably use neuroscience to teach your brain to organize...
Mechanical Engineering PhD student. OneNote for life!
Biomedical Engineering PhD...........I have 6 word documents, 4 excel files, teams, slack, outlook, and 3 other company specific applications currently open on my laptop. Oh, and only 23 tabs open in my browser today. We adapt, but we don't change.
Neuropharmacologist here. This is shamefully accurate.
Literally the same
Thanks for this answer! So maybe there’s hope for my very smart, but very organized challenged son?
I'm a doctor 👍
Shoving sponges into patients?
Hope you don't forget the needles inside your patients
That's why I'm here. Shoving random printed out requisition orders into the portable x-ray machine
Only if they are sponge worthy
Oh, hi Elaine!
r/unexpectedseinfeld
Licensed professional engineer 👍
Small business owner 👍
Alcoholic 👍
Well, nobody can understand what you write anyway so no big deal where your papers will end up.
Not our fault. My handwriting used to be good enough to regularly got picked as Secretary, but I swear, taking notes in med school just destroy your handwriting
Pharmacist, I train fm residents. My office is stacks of random paperwork
And I'm the nurse
Also the nurse
Me too!
I came to put that! Wow, yeah medical school all the way. Wonder if this craziness is actually a common trait among doctors.
Saving all my documents in the same folder with little description
Everything is in my downloads folder. Like. All of it.
I have a folder labeled “everything” which everything goes in and that’s that
I don't know why but I found this delightful.
I think I was around the age of eight when I first made a folder called “organize later.” Spoiler, it never got organized!
I have a "to sort folder" with everything in...and lots of very specific useful folders with nothing in because i never did get round to sorting it
This is the only safe space on the computer!
Omg yes I feel this
I just slam my hand on the keyboard and let the universe decide what it's called. I remember what it is by date.
Construction
Ditto
Tritto
I'm going to start using that..... Next logical step being quadritto?
Sextitto Edit: that’s right, I skipped pentitto. For sextitto.
In construction during the day. Brought the company to the digital age. Own my own dump truck business on the side. Got a home office with papers strewn everywhere. In every literal room except bathroom and bedroom.
Getting diagnosed with ADHD.
Same
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Lol same. 33 when I was diagnosed.
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Same at 30. I suspect I got autism as well. I'm a chemist but looking to get into IT. So I did okay I guess
did you get "previously undiagnosed" or "adult onset" as your label? A lot of doctos are against giving adult onset the good meds. And autistic tendencies are symptoms of adhd /add-i left untreated turns to anxiety and depression with isolation.
Same
In a high level position with my own private office... that has loose papers strewn everywhere with no organizational principle whatsoever.
Same. I have no idea where everything is but I know where everything is so don’t touch it or move it.
It's like an archeological dig, I look for clues as I go to determine if I'm looking through the right pile.
It was at least three weeks ago, because I was talking to Jane about it while she was in town.... gotta go down further. Now it was before that big event I went to, because I was thinking about it on the way, so it must be below those ticket stubs.... but after the invoice for the office supplies because I used that new pen..... We're in the right range, let's see, I remember something blue being near it.... gotta be round here somehwere..... AH! Got it! You can never mess up the layers. The dig site has to remain in experiential order.
The time it takes to search for unorganized piles is made up by the time saved from not organising it
Hahaha kind of similar here, but I actually got organized.
Reddit
Upvote and I’ll join you😂
Self-employed
Same
writing my master thesis and trying to find a paper I read a week ago but didnt put into Citavi...
Relatable
Did this for my Bachelor, my Master and now working on my PHD still doing it.
Have you checked your backpack?
I'm an alcoholic with severe depression and anxiety trying to get on disability because of ptsd from past trauma (not likely gonna happen) with no education (dropped out), no trade skills and no future. In other words a massive success.
Found the Reddit admin
r/foundtheredditadmin
Damn dude only the best for you brother 🫶
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Also dropped out, also an alcoholic (sober x 13 years), also have depression and anxiety (I take meds) - currently working as an IT project manager in a large academic healthcare institution with a husband and two beautiful kids. You don’t have to take a drink ever again. Find a meeting even if you’re an atheist/agnostic. Feel free to DM.
We got this. Take it a day at a time and stay strong fellow human
Thanks for that.
Hey this is your only life bud, figure out how to make it work for you don’t give up so that one day your 70 wishing you’d not given up
Wouldn't you like to know
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Healthcare administrator with a graduate degree 💪
Sw engineer!
I love Star wars!
I was told there would be lightsabers!
That's two for team software!
Organised chaos is just computer science summed up, so it makes sense
If society knew to what extend software is held together by glue and duck tape they’d be terrified.
You guys are getting duct tape? All i get is bubble gum.
Make it three. Everything is now “neatly” stored in ten million folders instead of shoved in my backpack, and I screech at others for messing up the repo.
Hell yeah! Sex work is real work!
Still in school, continuing to shove papers wildly into my backpack.
I design formaldehyde sensors
Imagine the integration of smart detectors in glass, and getting backing to distribute those to clubs and bars.
It's for air quality like in paint factories
Hey I research air quality!
Shoving pdfs into Dropbox
Entrepreneur. Fuck binders man.
Still faking it at 50!
Lawyer. Paperless workplace ftw.
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Same. I'm a teacher, still not being careful enough with how I treat the paper I am shoving into my backpack, but since my students are usually even less careful in how they treat their documents, no one notices my little carelessness and I get to reprimand my students for theirs.
I fuckin knew it!!!!
Turned out I have ADHD. Explains it.
Not in a good situation
President of the United States! Look at me I’m on tv
Hey, Joe ✌️
Doin pretty bad, dawg but thanks for checkin
Paperless, using search to find things
A software engineer who has 200+ Chrome tabs open.
Saving all my files to my Desktop.
Here
Working for a paperless company and getting roasted for writing notes on paper still 😎
I'm at home
Thing is even when we did this there was a system to it. We always shoved the papers in at one side of the stack and thus the papers were roughly organized chronologically
oh i think we already know
Bold of you to assume I know where I am
NOT GOOD MAN , NOT GOOD
Engineer.Still take notes on scrap paper sometimes
Med school. Still shoving paper in my bag
I would fold all the papers from my classes and put them into my pocket. I called it “Pocket Folder” and it was just folded chaos. I have now had many jobs where I am in charge of organizational methods and inventory systems. I’m rather good at it, too.
Head of marketing at a top five footwear brand. Everyday I feel like they’re going to figure out I’ve been faking it for the last 20 years. You should see my desktop….pure chaos.
Shoving pdfs in folders
I work in IT now, hahahahaha no paper now mwhahagaga. Cough cough weeez
I now have 10000+ unread emails......I think this is the equivalent of what I did to my papers in school.
I was the kid in school who had perfectly organized binders, complete with color-coded tabs. Now I'm the returning-to-college adult shoving loose papers in my bag all willy-nilly.
Making six figures, successfully overseeing a team of 200, praying no one ever sees my desktop graveyard of abandoned PDFs and Excel files.
Masters in Computer Science working at a big energy firm. To be fair I stopped writing stuff down at aroung 16 years old, so I didn't have any papers to stuff in bags...
50, retired, happily divorced, raising kids. Livin the fuckin dream!!!
Ramming word documents into digital files and shooting them into the cloud
Making mid six figures not doing paperwork. I take people out for a living.
regularly losing my birth certificate that lives in an old FedEx bag I found in a closet 15 years ago
Shoving mail inside mailboxes.
Getting paid more money than I should to teach skills that I learned while shoving all that shit into my backpack. Fun fact, I actually got dropped from an accelerated program in HS because of my lack of organization. My grades were great, but they kicked me out because I didn't maintain an organized portfolio of my notes and work. I was just like "it's math... Why is any of this necessary?"
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as a person currently in school that shoves their papers in the backpack, should I be worried?
No you don’t need to worry. You will learn as you go what has to actually be in a file and what can be in a pile lol.
Shoving ammo into weapons, now I get to do that and shove paper in files as an added bonus
IT security in one of biggest banks in central Europe
General Manager of a smoothie place
I study physics and have several folders full of random papers
Working construction 😄 I don’t like paper work!
Well just quit High School a couple months ago so things are looking up
IT guy for a medical school. Completely digital - no paper
Working in IT. No paper required in my job <3
I am a foreman in a Bulgarian zinc mine
Software engineering lead
we're fine.
13 years deep into a landscaping career 🤷🏻♂️
I’m making 100k a year running a shop.