Comment by jliptzin

I'm the same way. I just send myself emails when I need to save or keep track of something. I throw in some keywords that I'll know I'll search for in the future if/when I need to reference back. This works 95%+ of the time. For physical documents I need to save, I'll just keep it in a stack and periodically throw them in my scanner and save them in one PDF file and put it in a google drive folder for searching (using AI or otherwise) later. Most of these documents I never need again anyway, but at least they're there.

I know the organization people are probably horrified by all this, but I know myself well enough by now to know that I just won't stick to any system more complicated than this. The most important thing is that all that stuff is there, somewhere, if I really need it. I am essentially saving the effort up-front that I will 100% have to do in exchange for a little more effort later down the line which I probably won't have to do because I usually never need any of that stuff anyway.