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Today I'm going to show you three tips for using and maintaining binders. The first one has to do with the spine labels.
Sometimes, when you go to reuse a binder, and the spine label is in there already from a previous use,
it gets stuck, and it's hard to get out. So what you can do to get around that is
use a piece of tape.
Basically, it becomes a tab on the end, so that when you stick the spine label in, you still have a little
tab of tape that is invisible, or relatively invisible, that makes it easy to pull out for a later use.
So to do that,
all you need,
is a small piece of Scotch tape,
which you fold over to create the tab,
which is not sticky on one end.
Then, you take your premade spine labe.
You stick this on the back
of your spine label, so the sticky part of the tape is attached. Like this.
The next tip
would be about getting the spine labels into the binder.
If you have the binder closed when you do this, it's much more difficult.
The next tip,
would be about opening up the binder like this,
laying it flat,
which opens up and eases the seam of the binder, making it much easier
to get in.
And when we get to the top,
see we have the whole thing in,
and the tab that we can use to pull it out as needed.
The last tip has to do with binder dividers.
You can see in here.
Many people buy dividers, but they can be expensive, you can't reuse them, you can't move them around,
and if you write on them, then they're done. So basically, what I do a lot of times is use a simple piece of
paper
and used sticky notes or post it notes. I find that these sticky tabs are better because
they have a much stronger adhesive on them, so they don't fall off as easily.
If you use post-its, you can probably staple the post-it to the paper so the seal won't break.
But that way,
if I need to move tab "A" to this page, I can,
and it's no problem.