[jcelerier]

> With your 'throw it all in a box' system, you have a high barrier to finding documents in the future and this discourages you from doing so.

In fifteen years of keeping my mail I maybe had once or twice to go back in time more than a month or two ago.

[purerandomness]

Then that system obviously doesn't solve one of your pains.

I have to dig out older documents almost daily.

[matt_the_bass]

What types of things are you looking for so frequently? Maybe you could organize a subset of papers?