Steve Robbins here. Welcome to the Get It Done guys, quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

Listener Brie writes, I chose hanging file folders because I loved how the little plastic tabs can be moved to any position.

A drawer full of hanging files, forming neat little diagonal rows makes my heart sing with feelings of joy

and accomplishment. I spent my childhood on a farm, seeing neat orderly rows of crops from horizon

to horizon. It had a permanent effect on my psyche. When I add and remove files, the OCD part of me

is annoyed by where the tabs randomly end up. Sometimes five folders in a row all have the same tab position, thus hiding the

four tabs and back. Is there a quick and dirty tip that makes manila folders look as neat as

corn rows? You know what? I didn't grow up on a farm, but I saw a picture of a farm once, so I share

your concern about tricut manila folders not looking like neat rows of corn.

I used the tricut folders for years, and like you, I added and removed folders until the out-of-order tabs drove me nuts.

I am not obsessive about filing.

I am not obsessive about filing.

Repeat this 18.5 times.

Okay.

You don't even have to add and remove folders permanently.

Your file drawers can be a picture-perfect image of neatly diagonalized labels,

and you'll still suffer if you ever pull a few file folders out just to take with you to a client.

Can you imagine pulling out two left-tab folders and a right-tab folder?

You'd have to pull out a center tab folder to put between

them just to restore my feeling of balance, and it's just not allowed to carry around a folder you

aren't going to use. My life changed when I came to my current job, however. Carol, the administrative

assistant in my area, used straight-cut folders.

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