Systematic Files

My supervisor has offered me some advice: keep your files in neat order, store them systematically and name them sensibly so you always know where files and documents are and can access them with ease when needed (i.e. when your supervisor is looking over your shoulder and asks to see something you have not actually used for months). Again, PhD comics has hit the nail on the head, for my files actually look pretty much exactly like this:

Alos, we use syntax when analysing data on SPSS, this means writing out commands in a programming format instead of going through the drop down lists like a normal person. Again, his advice to me was to keep all the syntax for a specific study in one file and add to that file. Have I done that? Not yet. I intend to...soon!