I have been spending a lot of time this weekend thinking about organizing digital documents.  I’m very anal retentive about keeping the bills that I receive but I have a couple filing boxes full of papers.  Only twice have I had to go back and look at the bills but I did need to get that information.  I have started scanning my bills and then shredding it so I have a way to refer to them but don’t have them sitting around.  The problem I have run into is that because I’m organizing the bills by month I can easily find a bill for a specific date but I have a hard time getting to bills from a specific company.  I could easily make a copy of the file in another folder but that would create redundant files and use up extra space.

What I need is a system that organizes files on disk based on the date they were created but also allows for tagging of the files.  That would allow me to quickly find the information  I need without using up to much extra hard drive space.  It would be nice if the program could store the tags inside the files whenever possible so they can easily be moved around.  I have found some software that is proprietary and I’m a little worried about getting my data stuck in a file.