Wording tweaks

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions

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@@ -40,12 +40,12 @@ Or envelopes. More important than the physical manifestation of
 the concept of "folder" is how you arrange them, when you have many
 of them.
 
-What seems to work best for Lars is to have an easy, cheap way to
-have very specific folders (envelopes, tabs in ring finders, whatever).
+What seems to work best for me is to have an easy, cheap way to
+have very specific folders (envelopes, tabs in ring binders, whatever).
 Each folder should have very specific kinds of items in it. Thus,
 a folder named "Edinburgh council tax, 2011" would be better than
 "Financial stuff". The former is very specific, the latter would
-quickly grow to be very quick.
+quickly grow to be unhelpfully large very quick.
 
 Every folder should be labelled clearly. People with a lousy
 handwriting font might want to invest in a label writer of some
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ tax folder from above might instead be called "2011, tax, council,
 Edinburgh" or "UK, Edinburgh, council tax, 2011". The order of
 the keywords depends on how you're most likely to search for them:
 put the year first, if you think of things mainly in chronological
-order. Put the location first, or the words "countil tax" (or "tax, 
+order. Put the location first, or the words "council tax" (or "tax, 
 council") first, if those are what you look for first. Whatever
 works for you is best.
 
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ which full text search won't work, such as images, audio, and video.
 Thus, it is probably best to put your digital, archived files in
 folders named using the same system you use for your paper files.
 
-Lars recommends having a folder named "Archive" (or something similar
+I recommend having a folder named "Archive" (or something similar
 in your local language), which is the location where all your archived
 files shall be. Under "Archive", you'll create a folder for each 
 topic: these are the folders that correspond to the physical manilla
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ folders (or equivalent). Have only one level of these.
         Three GSM prepaid/
 
 Having only a single level of archive folders makes it easier to
-look for them manually, when full-text search is not available of
+look for them manually, when full-text search is not available or isn't
 good enough. If you create folders within folders, searching manually
 becomes at least an order of magnitude harder.
 
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ Scanners and shredders
 
 Paper is big and heavy and hard to grep through. Scanning everything
 you put into your paper archive makes it possible to carry it with
-you in your laptop, and often makes it much faster to find a particular
+you on your laptop, and often makes it much faster to find a particular
 item, particularly if you can get OCR to work so that your scans result
 in text rather than images. Further, you can more easily make backups
 of your digital documents than of your physical ones.
@@ -123,6 +123,6 @@ However, before you shred, be sure you do not need the physical copy.
 In some countries, tax authorities require the original physical
 document or receipt, for example.
 
-Many devices come with manuals in many langauges. Often it is possible
+Many devices come with manuals in many languages. Often it is possible
 to find a PDF of the manual from the manufacturer's website, allowing
 you to get rid of the bulky manual.