FileThis provides cabinets for top-level
organization of your documents. You might think of a virtual cabinet as a drawer
in your filing cabinet that signifies the first decision you make—which drawer does
this go in? (Unless, of course, you’re simply moving on to the next drawer because
the first one is full—something you’ll never encounter in FileThis.) Unlike hard
copy, though, documents in FileThis can exist in more than one cabinet. For example,
your mortgage paperwork can be in both the Financial and Home cabinets. For instant
organization, FileThis assigns documents to cabinets for you. You can move documents
to different cabinets, create your own cabinets, and delete cabinets.
Note: Documents automatically
delivered from your Accounts are automatically placed in their respective account.
You can add these documents to cabinets as well. The Accounts you set up in the
Connections tab are listed at left, between the Cabinets and Tags.
Filing Documents Automatically
When you upload a document, FileThis
attempts to automatically assign the document to the most relevant default cabinets
and apply relevant tags. Automatic filing works especially well with predictable,
repetitive documents such as bank statements, insurance policies, utility bills,
and the like.
- Default
cabinet: Each documents is automatically
filed in one or more of the default cabinets according to its content. If you
upload a bank statement, for example, it will be filed in the default Financial
cabinet. An electricity bill will be filed in both the Home and Utilities cabinets.
- Tags: FileThis
automatically applies tags to help you organize and locate your document. (Remember,
tags are similar to the hanging folders or manila folders within a filing cabinet
drawer.)
- Uncategorized
and Untagged cabinets: FileThis may not be able
to determine the content of documents that have imprecise file names and no
text; you will need to tag those documents yourself.
It may take a few minutes for FileThis
to determine the content of a document and automatically tag it. To see the results,
you may need to refresh FileThis by clicking the Refresh button to the left of the
search bar at the top of the Documents tab.
To check the cabinets that recently added
documents are filed in, select a document in the Recently Added cabinet. Scroll
through the Cabinets list to see which cabinets are checked.
Assigning Documents to Cabinets
Remember that you can assign the same
document to multiple cabinets, and you can assign multiple documents to a cabinet
in one step. To assign documents to a cabinet:
1. Use the search tools to display the documents
you want to assign to a cabinet.
2. Select the documents. (Click to select
one document, Shift+click to select a range of documents, and Command/Control+click
to select discontiguous documents.)
3. Drag the documents to a cabinet name; release the mouse button
when the green plus sign displays. The box next to the cabinet name is checked.
Tip: You can also simply click the button
next to the cabinet to assign it to the selected documents.
When you select documents, the box next
to each cabinet name shows whether the selected documents are assigned to that cabinet
as follows:
- A blank
box indicates that none of the selected documents are assigned to that cabinet.
- A checked
box indicates that all the selected documents are assigned to that cabinet.
- A hyphen
in a box indicates that one or more of the selected documents is assigned to
that cabinet.
To assign all the selected documents
to a cabinet, therefore, click the box until a checkmark displays. To remove all
the selected documents from a cabinet, click the box until it is blank.
Viewing Documents in Smart Cabinets
Use the three smart cabinets to get and
stay organized. For example, as soon as you upload documents, you can look in the
Recently Added cabinet to view the documents and review its cabinet and tags. FileThis
provides “smart cabinets” that update as necessary and make it easy to manage documents.
- Recently
Added: Any documents you have uploaded
in the last 24 hours display in the Recently Added cabinet. The documents will
remain in this cabinet for 24 hours regardless of other cabinets you assign
them to.
- Uncategorized:
Any documents that are not assigned to a specific cabinet are stored in the
Uncategorized cabinet.
- Untagged:
Any documents that are not tagged display in the Untagged cabinet.
Note that you cannot edit the names of
or delete the smart cabinets.
Creating Cabinets
FileThis provides a variety of default
cabinets, but you can create as many as you need. Just keep in mind that cabinets
are the top level of organization—sort of a “super tag”—so you don’t need to create
a cabinet for every single type of document you might have. Just create cabinets
for broad categories such as Home, Car, etc.
To create a cabinet:
1. Click the Edit button in the Cabinets area; a field displays
at the bottom of the Cabinets area.
2. Enter
a name for the cabinet in the field and press Return/Enter or click New. The field
remains active so you can create additional cabinets.
3. When you’re
finished creating cabinets, click the Edit button again to exit the edit mode.
Editing Cabinet Names
To edit a cabinet name, click the Edit
button. Click in the field containing the cabinet name, type a new name, and press
Return/Enter. Click the Edit button again to exit the edit mode. The documents that
were assigned to the cabinet remain in that cabinet.
Note: You cannot edit the names of the smart
cabinets or Vital Records.
Deleting Cabinets
To delete a cabinet, click the Edit button.
Click the red minus sign next to the cabinet name, then click OK to confirm the
deletion. Click the Edit button again to exit the edit mode. The documents remain
in FileThis and you can find them in any other cabinets they were assigned to or
in the Uncategorized Cabinet.
Tip: Alt-click/Option-click
the minus sign to skip the confirmation dialog box.
