I have had a file system on my computer that I’ve used for a long time. Thing is, it never really worked. Another system I had on my computer was my bookmarks and that never really worked either. My bookmarks where a waste land of useless information and I could not ever find what I wanted. It was frustrating. It usually took longer to find something on the computer than it did to re-create it. I almost never used my bookmarks. Maybe I had just a handful or two that were used, but all the rest of the bookmarks were unused. Worse yet, I wasted time searching for something and then when I clicked on it was wrong, broken, or was out of date.
I had an idea that I wanted an organization system that was flexible, it needed to be. Bookmarks can be a messy type of thing. I was also looking for an overall theme to organization that would encompass some parts of organizational techniques that I liked and used from other methods like GTD (Getting Things Done), and useful methods like Marie Kondo’s system of cleaning up your act. So one day I sat down and had a look. Over the next week or two I had some ideas.
One morning I sat down and wrote down some basic organizational categories and a method of processing organization related things. This was the start of StopSpots.
This week I’m going to take you through some of the basics, check back in in a day or two!