I like this letter from certainly one of you! These rules actually do work and I like seeing them utilized to different conditions. There may be a lot worth in making progress with out inflicting a large number of stuff that has to be handled later.
Hello Dana,
I’ve been following you since 2016. I’ve written in just a few occasions as a result of your system simply works. And never solely does it work in a house, I began making use of it to my job.
I work at a library, and I simply took over a protracted uncared for assortment. The books want to be weeded and up to date and the duty is simply utterly overwhelming. I began doing what I assumed was proper after which I thought of what you at all times say. Do the straightforward stuff first. And there are simple issues. There are books with a dot on them that present they’re over 20 years outdated which implies they’re actually grubby so individuals don’t need to examine them out. So I did that.
After which I considered your closing determination rule and realized that I used to be doing quite a lot of: pull books from shelf, type books into piles in accordance to what to do with them, act on piles, rinse and repeat. My desk was a large number, the gathering was nonetheless overwhelming… the piles stored bleeding into one another… It’s all of the stuff you speak about.
I’ve a brand new system now for weeding. I take a laptop computer and a cart with me and once I pull a ebook from the shelf, I do every little thing I want to proper there within the stacks and stick the ebook on the cart to be withdrawn. It takes about the identical period of time to work by way of a weedlist, however the workflow isn’t backing up on my desk!
Slowly however certainly, the gathering is becoming into its container higher, and the shiny new books are circulating so significantly better than the grubby outdated ones had been. And better of all, the piles are staying off my desk. I’m now contemplating what different areas of my job can profit from this technique!
Allison
