Using Google Drive as an organizer for academics

What is this feeling?

I organized my Google Drive for my senior year of high school (next year) with a goal of maximum organization and productivity. It seems a bit weird to already be focusing on next year, but I want to make sure that it goes smoothly. All of my school work, whether physical or digital, will be stored inside the Google Drive with their corresponding folders. I have folders for every class, and then within those more folders for each unit of that class. This way, all the work for each unit is clearly labeled and easy to find. Additionally, I will put the dates of all the work in the name of the document, since it can get pretty confusing (quickly) when the document was assigned/created. Keeping dates also helps in case an issue comes up with grading or similar assignments. 

Although my school computer runs slowly, it still manages to handle Google Drive well enough, so I don’t have any issues accessing my work during at school. This is really useful when I need to reference notes or homework—especially for reviewing specific concepts, like a math formula I’ve forgotten.. This year I've noticed that I've frequently needed to reference past things from the year, but didn't have an organized drive with those things. I didn't even bother making a physical "drive" with binders and folders, since I am much less organized in real life. Plus, the papers get really heavy after a while and easily damaged. 

Having a well-organized and resourceful Google Drive with plenty of study material will make getting through the AP classes more bearable (Yes, I am definitely taking AP English Literature and Composition). This will also make studying for said exams more efficient and effective. It will be much easier to locate all the content I've received and use it to create new study materials based on what I already have. This year I found it hard to find all my damn history notes to study for the topics, leaving me all on my own to finding new study resources (because most of my notes were either lost in the abyss or damaged).

I know it will be difficult to stick to this organization--who doesn't want to just shove the work in your bag and forget about it? I need to have some discipline to take the time to scan my work or upload it to drive, even after being exhausted from working on it at 11pm. It's time to be like a real high schooler commit to this plan.

My drive also has other folders unrelated to school work like music, audio, videos, images, ROMS, save files, novels, and creative writing. Keeping other miscellaneous stuff like this organized also helps it from interfering with organizing the school work when it starts to get messy. 

 

We'll see how this turns out.