I lost all my files from my time in Thailand from 2003-2008 to water damage. Thankfully I have a folder index to help jog my memory....
ever since I read this book called Getting Things Done - my world of "files" has never looked the same. I may still be "stack centric" but at least I have some form of organizing all the stuff that comes to me like a magnet!
(refer to grey portable filer)
files created but not referenced downtown