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elctronic 43 folders?

jaludwick | Sep 8 2007

Does anyone do this and if so what program/system do you use?

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Another way to do this...

Submitted by jason.mcbrayer on September 20, 2007 - 6:42am.

cornell;10349 wrote:
Another way to do this is with a simple folder scheme - literally 43 directories, set up same as paper... Anyone else tried this?

I haven't tried it, but I suspect that would be unduly complex unless you used some kind of scripting to simplify it. And at that point, you'd still probably be better off implementing it in some other way.

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