RootsTech 2014   Saturday, July 31, 2010  Now that I have all
these digitized files, what do I do with them?  The organization
of multiple files, whether digitized or on paper, has always
been a challenge. There seem to be two main camps; on the one
hand there are those who want to duplicate their paper file
organization on the computer, using the desktop metaphor of
files and file folders. Otherwise, there are those who recognize
that computers do not need a file metaphor and they use the
computer to "organize" the files. Admittedly, using the computer
to do the organization is pretty technical. But you might find
the optimal way to organize your files somewhere between the two
extremes.  I assume that because the paper file/computer file
metaphor is so pervasive in the graphic user interface of all of
today's consumer computers, that this is the most likely way
that genealogists will start to organize on the computer. In
this method, you create a new file folder at some location on
the computer, say for a s