Updated Sep. 23, 2019. Originally published Oct. 29, 2013.

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Miscellaneous Notes

The last category of paperwork that needs to be organized is miscellaneous notes – the little, random bits of information that don’t necessarily fit with everything else.  Often, they don’t even warrant whole pieces of paper on their own.  For instance, if I read that tagua nuts are good for carving and wanted to remember what they’re called, what do I do with this little note?

This is where technology can be very handy, because searching makes these much easier to find!  A text file or document can work, as can a note program like Evernote.

If you want to keep them in analog form, what I have done in the past is divide up a binder into alphabetized pages, like a dictionary, and put my notes in there under whatever keyword I thought I’d look for them under.  (For instance, I would not look for tagua nuts under “tagua,” because that’s the part I’d be trying to remember!  I’d be more likely to look for them under “carving nuts.”)

STEP 1: Decide whether to keep your random bits of information in digital or analog format, and put a system in place.

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