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Whats your my documents schema?

Hi All.

I had a computer crash the other day, and whilst I am waiting for my data to be returned, I thought it would be a great opportunity for some spring cleaning of my files. I know that there are a lot of you that are far more organised than me so I thought I would share my ideas about the optimal folders schema that will work for me. If any of you can suggest improvements, I would love to hear your suggestions.

Heres the schema(ps I give this as complete creative commons so do with it what you will!)
I have attached the folders as an image.
If there are any great changes I will add them in and zip it up. to share.

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Well I have two different...

Well I have two different projects folders, one under personal and one not. The personal one has things I do at home, such as my personal web site or the router table I built for woododrking. The projects (non personal) folderused to have a lot of things such as "active directory upgrade for the state employee relations board" but since I now have a company assigned laptop as well as my personal all my company projects are on the company laptop so my non persoal projects has become more for things around the house such as the crib/changing table I built for my son.
I also have a pair of folders (personal/non personal) for project ideas which equates to your 'someday maybe'. I like your 'personal development" folder I could move my training and certifications and church stuff under it.
hmm, good thread, this got me to thinking, my "projects folder should probably be moved up one level instead of under documents. I see you habe projects under "enter company name" so that makes more sense than one projetcs folder under work.
I assume since you have 'clients' then you are an independant contractor/consultant. I'm employed full time now so I have a folder with my employer name and some documents that go with it but have done work on the side so I have client name folders as well as folders for different employers and client name folders under those for each of their clients.
Making me rethink some of my layout now.
IMHO the purchased software need to be on the same level as documents since purchased software is not documents, its a seperate category.
Now I need to think about my whole inventory system. I have various folders for each room of the house or each storage location/toolbox/whatever which has a spreadsheet with an inventory and a folder of scanned receipts and downloaded manuals for the tool or electronic device, I've never quite figured out how to arrange those.
Then there is the whole "documents" name in itsself. I don't have much that can't fit in a specific folder be it project or account or customer related. Each of those specific category folders could be moved to the top level and the whole "documents" folder gone. I only have the word "documents" from when I was running windows.

 
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