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.

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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A black filing cabinet next to side table with lamp - Pixel-Shot/Shutterstock Metal filing cabinets are often the last thing ...

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 ...