Horizontally Organized (comments on John Perry’s article)
What is the difference between vertically and horizontally organized people? (see John Perry’s article)
Well, I don’t know about others, but I struggle to use the same vertically-oriented tools as others. While the vertically organized people like file and hanging folders and those racks that hold folders upright on the desk or table, I am just as comfortable with a stack of folders or papers on my desk. It’s not that I can find things faster that way than if they are “stacked” vertically. It’s just that that is my natural way of doing things. Trying to remember to put things in vertical folders (hanging, desktop or otherwise) feels like trying to write with my left hand (I’m right-handed).I have to think about all of it very carefully.
