A few years back I was on my "notebook ". I organized all my important papers into three ring binders to keep everything straight and items together. I decided last week ( I 'm at the middle school now) that the note book organizing was the way to go to keep like items together. It worked at the public library when I had a tiny tiny office, now here my office is bigger but has even less space and places to organize important papers.
The first thing I did was to organize and figure out how to build my binder. Previously I had items in two hanging file folders that were located on my desk placed in one of my file holders. Every tune I took one out to work on something ( which was weekly) the papers would either fall out or get in the wrong spot.
So in the binder I put four divider tabs. The first was labeled pending, so all the purchase orders still out / not received were hole punched and place behind this section. I also made a section marked general in which I placed information about the budget in general- amounts for materials and supplies, amounts for chapter 53 ( funds for books state assigned). So depending on the PO , I placed them in whatever tab they belonged. These were the completed Po with items we had received,
Now when I have budget papers they are finalized, I hole punch them and put them in the proper section. When I pull out the book, the items stay where they belong. It makes it easier to grab what I need and also is much easier to keep in order. MMMMM What else can I put in those binders??
