This is Steveer Robbins.

Welcome to the Get It Done Guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

Listener Anne wrote in.

She wrote in seven years ago, but I lost her message and just found it.

Hopefully she's still a loyal listener.

Hopefully she is still alive.

But if not, there's some extra zombie reanimation powder in the stock room.

Here's what she said.

Hi, I got a recipe book for Christmas to store all of my recipes.

The problem, though, is I don't know exactly what or how I should sort it.

I could sort by the type of meal, breakfast, lunch, snack, or dinner, or by the type of food,

cookies, cake, salad, etc. I don't know how I'll be looking things up at the time. What should

I do? Thank you for the question, Amy. My episode on filing things for retrieval,

there's a link in this episode's transcript, won't quite do the trick, since Amy anticipates

needing to retrieve her recipes many different

ways. There's no one answer. Fortunately, here at Quick and Dirty Tips, we daily conquer the

difficult and weekly accomplish the impossible, so I think that Amy should do the same and should

file one item under multiple filing systems at once.

Now, back to Amy's question.

In eighth grade, we moved to a new city, and I decided, for reasons known only to my bizarre 13-year-old mind, probably some weird puberty side effect, to pretend that I had an identical

twin brother.

I actually pulled it off for a few weeks, but what made it fall apart was that I couldn't

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