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Decimal Diary: TGIF and vintage annual reports

Dear Decimal Diary,

Last week I did a little TGIF – Thank God I Filed it – time. And when I was nosing around I found a fun folder I'd forgotten about in 43 Images in our Small Business System.

TGIF is Johnny's idea about spending some time on Friday afternoons filing things properly and neatening your system. When your brain is too tired for other stuff.1 It's the kind of thing I put off, and then when I start I can't stop. Now I know about how files sort beautifully using the date, I get a small thrill from tidying up messy filenames.2

The ID I neatened last week was 43.21 Vintage annual reports. It has some PDFs I'd downloaded for inspiration at some point. The filenames were haphazard and as-downloaded. And since they're annual reports, putting the year out the front makes sense to me. Now they're all lined up and tidy. It's a small win, but satisfying. And I'll remember I have these in the chamber.

A nicely sorted ID
Figure 22.00.0170A. A nicely sorted ID.

Some reports

The Bureau of Economic Geology
Figure 22.00.0170B. The Bureau of Economic Geology.
 The Ford Foundation
Figure 22.00.0170C. The Ford Foundation.
 The Deep East Texas MHMR
Figure 22.00.0170D. The Deep East Texas MHMR.
 A page with a financial report
Figure 22.00.0170E. A page with a financial report.
 The Philippine Wood Products Association
Figure 22.00.0170F. The Philippine Wood Products Association.
 The Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Figure 22.00.0170G. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
 A page with a photo by the Voyager probe
Figure 22.00.0170H. A page with a photo by the Voyager probe.
 The Electricity Supply Board
Figure 22.00.0170I. The Electricity Supply Board.
 The Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Figure 22.00.0170J. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
 The Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Figure 22.00.0170K. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

If you have any leanings this way, the vintage annual report world can be a dangerous rabbit hole.3 And so can filing using the date to sort.

From Lucy

100% human. 0% AI. Always.

Footnotes

  1. Our Friday afternoon soundtrack is often the Platinum Collection by Genesis, but anything similar will improve this type of admin. ↩

  2. Remember, you can set up a shortcut to add dates automatically. ↩

  3. Especially the space ones. ↩

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