Totally in awe of Kathleen Auerbach's organizational system - but have to
say I'm exactly like Kathy D.on this. No surer way to lose track of
something than to "file" it!

So the theme coming out of this organizational thread seems to be that what
works for any one of us varies according to our own particular style of
learning, categorizing, remembering, etc. I would never find a thing in
Kathleen A.'s system, nor would I do well with things other people filed for
me, because I have to SEE something to remember anything about it. I can
never find anything that someone else puts away around the house, either,
yet I can tell you that the mate for that faded black sock with the itchy
toe seam that the rabbit peed on 8 years ago was last seen in the closet
near the mittens but its elastic is all stretched out anyway so try that
other black sock that Molly wore that day that she cut her arm on the fence
roller skating in third grade that's been near where we used to keep the
garbage bags before we put them under the sink...(Anyone else in the family
is like "what - we have a closet where we keep the mittens? Where?")

I also can't really "read" an article on the computer - I have to print it
off & read it from paper if it's to make any impression at all. My dh is a
computer guy, and when I tell him that nothing really sinks in if I just
read it on the screen, he can't imagine what I'm talking about. But he
doesn't know where that sock is, even if he just took it off & put it there
2 hours ago.

Moral: we all learn and remember and "take in" stuff differently - just as
our clients & colleagues do with the info we share about BFing. That's why
we need so many strings to our bow, or arrows in our quiver, or ways to skin
a cat, or whatever the correct phrase is...

Cathy Bargar