Damien Katz

Wow... what a convoluted excuse for basically turning the big pile of shit on your desk sideways. Saying the system relies upon you remembering when the document was created (or, having to remember anything other than the system itself, and not individual items in it) defeats the entire purpose of having a "system" at all because the only system at work is your memory. On the software side, it does this already, but maybe you mean on a different level than simply listing emails or files By Date, or how things get cached? It's always better to have a computer remember things you don't have to yourself, with its own memory.

Seems to address a problem that I have. Filing items always sounds like work, so I pull some receipts out of my wallet and instead of filing them like a good boy, I toss them on my desk. Same goes for most mail I get. Tossing them into an envelope doesn't strike me as much more work. Looking at my desk I can tell you that it holds a bank statement that I got in the mail last week, but I can't actually find it. I know the time, not the place.

Seems more useful as a way to organize material in active projects. The "holy files" that are only accessed once a year would be better organized with an A-Z system a la GTD.