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✓ Efficiency-Killing Organization

✓ Efficiency-Killing Organization

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Jun 27, 2023
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25 folders here, 43 labels there, copying and pasting, and moving content to the appropriate destination.

You think you’re super organized, and everything is neatly set up?

I bet you do. But it’s killing your efficiency, and it’s completely unnecessary.

Organizational Chaos

My father has been a devoted Mac user since the early ’90s when Macs were the outlier and Windows was still cool.

Throughout the years, he has epitomized structure and organization — or so I thought.

His emails were meticulously sorted into at least 5 dozen folders, with an additional 5 layers of sub-folders beneath them.

His photos were organized into albums, carefully sorted by years, events, and locations — all done manually. Each item is meticulously dragged to its designated destination.

His files followed a strict hierarchy, neatly placed within labeled folders, sub-folders, and sub-sub-folders.

It’s perfect organization. And it’s chaos. Here’s the better way ↓

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