OK, here's a question for you smart unclutterers. At work, we have projects that "evolve" - i.e., a co-worker might ask me to look into something without knowing where that something will lead, and then eventually it becomes a project or (better still) a project with a paying client! But often in that exploratory phase, it isn't clear what the project will really be, and thus it is difficult to organize the files created. Right now, I have a folder called "Incubator", which is where all these miscellaneous files go...but this isn't quite working, since often once the project is named and begun, I will forget that there is relevant info in the "Incubator" folder. And that causes frantic chaos from time to time.
This is sort of a similar problem to the paper filing system problem, except in my opinion it is SO much harder. Because digital files can accumulate much more quickly, at least in my line of work, than paper ones.
Any tips on making 2012 the year that I stop misplacing files? How do you deal with files that you know you need to hang on to, but don't quite have a place, yet?
