I don’t own my own business, but I seem to be drowning in files – mostly word files or PDFs – that I can’t delete because I need them. No matter how hard I try I can never seem to get things organized in a meaningful way. Then, if I need one of them it takes me hours to find them and sometimes I never do. I’ve ended up accidentally deleting important things before because they were out of order and I thought they were just extra files that I didn’t need. More than once I’ve lost extremely important documents, including project PDFs which contained all of the information I needed for a particular project.

I never knew that a document management system existed, but I always thought that life would be easier if there was one that I could use. I’d give anything to not have to worry about where my important documents are and whether or not I’ll be able to find them when the time comes that I need them. Especially now that I’m applying to Grad School at Duquesne University, I’ve got a lot of information that I need to keep track of including my transcripts, recommendations, portfolio, GRE scores and the application itself. Pretty much all of these things are digital now and I need to know that when I have to send them along, I’m going to be able to find them.