the.com/filing systems
the art of pretending future-you will remember why past-you put it there.
means a method for organizing documents so they can be found later, ranging from alphabetical folders to chaotic desktop piles labeled 'misc'.
from comes from medieval clerks literally threading documents on a wire or string (a 'file', from the latin filum, meaning thread) to keep papers in order and unstealable.
dewey decimalmelvil dewey hated his own first name's spelling
oldest systembabylonian clay tablets sorted by subject, 2000 bc
corporate ironymost searched folder name is literally 'misc'