I had a great system for the kind of documents that you will only need in the far future, or not at all, but for which it would be a major issue if you actual n

I had a great system for the kind of documents that you will only need in the far future, or not at all, but for which it would be a major issue if you actual need them but can't find them: tax stuff, receipts, statements, bills... For this kind of documents you want to minimize the probability of loss, minimize the time to file them, and are not too concerned of the time to retrieve them. For this a drawer is perfect: just put them in the top of the drawer, and do not use this drawer for anything else. It does not look very professional but is very effective: - It takes 1 sec, thus diminishing the probability of not doing it and losing the paper. - Documents are organized chronologically, so you can find what you are looking for quite quickly. Just be sure to religiously keep everything in chronological order. Once per year, transfer the drawer’s content to a folder. If you fill up more than one drawer per year this system might not be good enough for you. Alas, my gf did not see the beauty of this system, and insists on having a highly sophisticated and complex storage system that I think is strictly inferior on every account.