My dear new assistant — welcome to Baker Street. I am Sherlock Holmes, and I confess we face a most vexing problem. Dr. Watson, brilliant chronicler though he is, has left our case files in a state of utter chaos. Documents with meaningless names. Papers stuffed into the wrong drawers. Five copies of the same report, each claiming to be “final.”
A tidy archive is the detective's greatest weapon. When evidence is well named, well organised, and safely kept, the truth reveals itself in moments. When it is not… criminals walk free.
Five cases await you — four lessons, and then a final examination where every skill must serve at once. Solve them all, earn your deduction points, and I shall certify you a true Consulting Archivist.
“It is a capital mistake to lose one's files before one has data.”
The Naming of Things
A Place for Everything
The Duplicate Documents
The Vanished Evidence
The Final Problem
Certificate of Deduction
Let it be known that the bearer has, under the exacting eye of Mr. Sherlock Holmes, mastered the science of file management:
- Naming files descriptively, with dates as
YYYY-MM-DD - Organising files into sensible folders
- Taming versions without “final_FINAL_v2” madness
- Backing up evidence and deleting with care
- Tidying a real folder end to end in the final examination
Final Score: deduction points
— S. Holmes, Consulting Detective