Understanding Cabinets, Drawers, and Folders

Enoch File organizes your documents the way a real filing cabinet does, so if you’ve ever used a physical filing cabinet, you already have a good idea of how it works. Of course, premium users can make unlimited cabinets, drawers, folders, and files, which you can’t do with a physical file cabinet.

Cabinets are the top level. You might have one cabinet for personal documents and another for business. Most people start with one cabinet and add more as their needs grow. For example, someone might add a ‘Household’ cabinet when they buy a home, or a ‘Business’ cabinet when they start a side hustle.“

If you think a category will have many sub-categories, make the category a cabinet. If you end up creating too many drawers in a cabinet and it begins to feel disorganized, create a new cabinet and move some drawers into it.

Drawers are inside cabinets, just like the drawers on a real filing cabinet. Each drawer holds a category of documents. During setup, we suggest drawers like Medical, Financial, Insurance, Legal, and others — but you can name them anything and add or remove them at any time. If you think a category will have many documents, make it a drawer and add folders to it.

Folders are inside drawers. These let you subdivide a drawer’s contents. For example, your Medical drawer might have folders for each family member, or your Financial drawer might have folders for each year.

Files are the documents and other files you upload. They can be PDFs, office documents, google docs, images, audio files, videos and many other formats. (Just bear in mind that not all will work in the preview mode.) Files can be stored in a drawer or in a folder.

Here’s how they nest:

Cabinet → Drawer → Folder → Files
Cabinet → Drawer → Files

A few tips for organizing well:

• Don’t overthink it at the start. Pick the drawers that match the paperwork in your life and add more later.
• If you find yourself creating lots of folders inside folders, consider whether a new drawer might be cleaner. Enoch File supports one level of folders inside a drawer — keeping things simple and easy to navigate.
• Use the Archive for drawers and files you don’t need regularly but don’t want to delete. Archived items are hidden from your main view but easy to retrieve. (Archive is only available for premium users.)
• Remember that you can move files, folders, and even drawers between cabinets at any time. You can also copy a file so it can be stored in two places.