Which filing cabinets are best? Though the world may be going digital, many people and businesses still need to store many physical files. If you want to do that in a neat and organized manner, a ...

Confession: When I was a teenager, I asked for a four-drawer black file cabinet for my birthday. There’s just something alluring about putting order to your paper, as if your life will follow.

Discarded metal file cabinets are a frequent sight at many thrift stores. While once the place for important papers in any home office, these cabinets, in the era of digitized and paperless ...

To be vertical is to be upright, positioned at a right angle to the horizon. Therefore, to think about the vertical is to consider the organization of space and to think about organization spatially.

It only takes a few clicks to share information online, but that information may remain available to others for a very long time. Designer Jaap de Maat aims to remind us of this fact with his art ...

You can make a planter out of pretty much anything. An old metal file cabinet is just about the perfect size for a raised planter you can roll in and out of the sunlight as needed. Remove the drawers, ...

Ms. Paul is the editor of the Book Review and the author, most recently, of “100 Things We’ve Lost to the Internet.” Remember filing cabinets? Those lumbering, clattering towers of drawers stuffed ...