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.

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In The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information, Craig Robertson chronicles the history and influence of the titular 19th-century invention that revolutionized offices. The machine—for it was ...

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 ...

If you want a subtler change that will help you get all your files in order, check out Filing Cabinets 2.0 ($19.95 direct). This software creates virtual filing cabinets on your desktop where you can ...

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On April 30, 2019, Petitioner Hirsh Industries, LLC filed a petition for the imposition of antidumping and countervailing duties on imports of vertical metal file cabinets from the People’s Republic ...