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Created 2022-06-08
idiondrottning wrote:
The Noguchi Filing System is for keeping track of physical paper. I keep paper in envelopes on a shelf and new envelope go on the right (or on the left if you live in Japan) and if I use an envelope, it goes on the right as if it were new. Linux nerds can think of this as sorting the envelopes by atime.
This made me chuckle, as it reminded me of a professor at my old university. He was a clever chap, naturally, but I never approved of his sense of organisation. He had a huge stack of papers on his desk. It led me to joke that he didn't file things alphabetically, but by centimeters from the bottom.