Which filing cabinets are best? Though the world may be going digital, many people and businesses still need to store many physical files. If you want to do that in a neat and organized manner, a ...

If you love the look of vintage-inspired items, but not the price tag, then this DIY turning old filing cabinets into ...

Discarded metal file cabinets are a frequent sight at many thrift stores. While once the place for important papers in any home office, these cabinets, in the era of digitized and paperless ...

Whether your filing system has gotten away from you or it was never really under control to begin with, you can use our handy guide to beat it back into shape. Photo by juan23for. Many people have a ...

Offices look different now than they did a few years ago, which is to say many of them are a lot emptier. Less than 80% of workers over 16 are working entirely on-site as of last year. But, other than ...

Confession: When I was a teenager, I asked for a four-drawer black file cabinet for my birthday. There’s just something alluring about putting order to your paper, as if your life will follow.

To be vertical is to be upright, positioned at a right angle to the horizon. Therefore, to think about the vertical is to consider the organization of space and to think about organization spatially.

In 2002, Vermont architect Bren Alvarez acquired 11 disused filing cabinets, which she stacked one on top of the other, creating a single 40-foot-plus column of 38 metal drawers. The resulting ...

It can be challenging to keep your digital documents organized and safe. These 10 file management practices will help you get started.

It only takes a few clicks to share information online, but that information may remain available to others for a very long time. Designer Jaap de Maat aims to remind us of this fact with his art ...

Ms. Paul is the editor of the Book Review and the author, most recently, of “100 Things We’ve Lost to the Internet.” Remember filing cabinets? Those lumbering, clattering towers of drawers stuffed ...