Color-Code Your Folders
I am a big believer in customizing your folder icons to help improve searching. After changing some of my folders to differentiate between reference material, programs and action items, I have noticed a dramatic increase in speed while browsing folders.
One of the easiest ways of implementing icon customization is to color-code your folders. Come up with some sort of key and then assign the colors to specific folder types. Personally, I color-code my client’s folders to differentiate between leads, research, working and finalized. This is a very simple means to get an instant snapshot of your pipeline.
I’d recommend using Folder Maker. They have a few different versions – but the free editions features all of the basic folder customizations that you need.
a productive desktop at Vision Beta February 27th, 2007 at 5:17 pm
[...] are in a program folder and your documents are in a document folder. Check out my article on color-coding your folder to help in organization. Next, right click your desktop, select ‘arrange icons by’ and [...]