The hard drive is your computer's
filing cabinet. All of your applications
— Microsoft Works, Claris
CAD, Microsoft Excel — and all
of the documents created by those
applications — letters, drawings,
spreadsheets — are stored on the
hard drive in "folders." Like the
real manila versions, folders can
hold applications (programs), documents,
or both. You can put
folders in other folders, and those
in still other folders until you are
totally lost. Because you will live
or die by your folder storage
system, it's important to have a
good one.
You should base your hard drive
folder system on the way you currently
organize all the paper in
your office. Mine is simple, and it
works for me because it