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January 28th, 2008

Incoming paperwork

incoming paperwork

This is the method I use. I have found it to fail without fail.

This has nothing to do with the fact that it is National ‘Do your tax form’ Week.

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12 Responses to “Incoming paperwork”


  1. joe says:

    Sounds remarkably like my desk.

  2. truthsign says:

    That is exactly my method, Dave. I now have at least three years’ worth of paperwork, and possibly more, piled up on my desk, overflowing in two filing trays, and under the spare bed. A tip in the spirit of Quentin Crisp: if you leave it for six years it no longer has any legal status and you can ignore it.

  3. Helen Thompson says:

    As I told my friend Sally, this is a quick and dirty guide to Getting Things Left Undone.

    With apologies to David Allen.

  4. Bimble says:

    I sucessfully used this method to get me through my under and post graduate degrees.

  5. Jaded for Jesus says:

    Oh dear, horribly familiar.

    As far as tax returns go, I follow the maxim that you shouldn’t fire them off until you can see the whites of Adam Hart-Davis’s eyes.

  6. Chris says:

    Yep, this is very close to my own “system” too! Which means some serious “archaeology” whenever I need to find anything … :-(

  7. jody says:

    again, brilliance - but at least it’s all in one place……..that’s my excuse anyway

  8. Cal says:

    And mine.

    Though I have done my tax return. A whole five days before the deadline this time.

  9. jody says:

    ooh I’m now wondering what I wrote that needed ‘moderation’….

  10. Aaron Orear says:

    It’s like you have a camera trained on my desk…

  11. St says:

    Anyone wishing to change their attitude to paper should follow the four Ds of:

    Do it (urgent and important paper which should be actioned then filed)
    Diary it (non-urgent and important paper which should be filed until actioned)
    Delegate it (urgent and non-important paper which should be given to someone else to action)
    Dump it (non-urgent non-important paper which should be put in the recycling bin once paper clips, staples and bits of plastic have been removed).

    Easy.

  12. Jael says:

    Who votes we send round a ‘mystery desk inspector’ to check if St (response 11) actually sticks to their 4 D’s? :)