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Computer file organization

It's easy to think that once you're finished with whatever class you're currently in, you will never need the information again. I have found this to be very far from the truth! I graduated almost two years ago and I still have to reference my course work every once in a while to help me with a current project. Just believe me when I say you need to develop a good organizational system now, before you begin, and trust that you will thank yourself later.

Here are my suggestions for getting your files organized:

• Create a main "school" folder in your Documents directory that will hold folders for each semester.
• Create sub-folders for each semester within the School folder. Label them something like, "FALL06" or "SPRING07" etc.
• Create sub-folders for each class within each semester folder. Make sure to include the name of the class as well as the course number because after a year or two you'll have no idea what the course number was but you're likely to recognize the name of the class.
• Save a text document of "notes" in each class directory, to include the professor's name and email address (you never know when you may need this information later on!).
• Save all your homework files with clearly labeled file names within each class folder (you never know when you may need them again sometime).