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I got a few storage organisers [1]. Each drawer is by person and broad category, sorted by date - new things go on top.
The categories should ideally have minimal overlap, so it's clear where they go.
Example categories are: home, car, banking/finance, legal, health, education, and ephemeral inbox.
In case of overlaps, it gets sorted by the organisation that sent the document, e.g. a bank loan about a car will be in the banking drawer, not in the car drawer.
The ephemeral inbox is for anything that only needs to be retained short term (<1 years), regardless of the category.
For any letter that requires an action, I will create a task in my to do list. I will then either file it in the ephemeral inbox or discard it if not needed.
Electronic documents are saved in Dropbox folders by category and year, and are prefixed by ISO 8601 dates.
1. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00KRAW9FC/