Silver Clipboard: Time Management Tips and Personal Productivity Tools

Now that your physical files are organized, it’s time to tackle your digital files. Computer files fall into two categories: projects and reference.
Projects are the things you’re currently working on. These are files you make changes to and the materials you need to make those changes.
Reference is files that you may need to [...]

Now that you know how to encrypt files on your Mac OS X computer, the question is: what do you need to encrypt? Here are some of the kinds of things you’ll want to keep inside an encrypted folder, broken down into vital and not-vital categories.
Vital Files to Encrypt:
Financial documents: if you get your bank [...]

You’re computer has just been stolen. Maybe you forgot your laptop on bus or perhaps your house has been burglarized. Either way, your computer is now gone and you need a costly replacement.
But that is only the beginning of your problems.
If you’re like most people, you keep sensitive information on your computer. [...]

Recently I sat down with a client in London who had a big organizational problem with her computer desktop. Unsure how to organize her files, she saved everything to her desktop. Everything. There were about twenty gigabytes of stuff in five thousand files. She called me for help because her computer [...]

Your computer has lots of files — especially if you’re a digital pack rat. How then to keep them organized? You’re not a librarian, so aim for the minimally effective system and value simplicity over all else.
I recommend dividing your digital files into two, broad categories: projects, and reference. Within those two [...]