# Find your family record-keeping style

> Six friendly questions, a computed style result, and a practical next step. No account required.

[Canonical activity](https://makethisuseful.com/play/record-keeping-style)

## Take the quiz

Answer the six questions in the guest tool. Choose the answer closest to what you usually do. The tool computes one of three friendly outcomes from your choices; it does not diagnose a personality or verify how organized your household is.

## Possible outcomes

### The Archivist

Your answers lean toward labels, a home for each paper, and knowing which copy is current. Your next useful move is a one-page map someone else can follow.

Useful next step: List three important records and where you keep the current copy. Add a plain-language note for someone who does not know your filing system.

[About this possible outcome](https://makethisuseful.com/play/record-keeping-style/archivist)

### The Family Historian

Your answers lean toward people, context, and remembering who knows what. Your next useful move is getting a few of those connections onto a page.

Useful next step: Write down who knows where three important records live. Add each record's location so the answer does not depend on one person's memory.

[About this possible outcome](https://makethisuseful.com/play/record-keeping-style/family-historian)

### The Shoebox Optimist

Your answers lean toward gathering things first and sorting them when there is a reason. Your next useful move is one small landing place, with no whole-house overhaul.

Useful next step: Choose one folder or box. Find just three useful records, note where they are, and stop there for today. Unknown is a perfectly useful note.

[About this possible outcome](https://makethisuseful.com/play/record-keeping-style/shoebox-optimist)

Reading an outcome page is not evidence that you completed the quiz or received that result. Use the actual quiz to get a result from your own answers. Sharing a result and asking for optional delivery are separate choices in the tool.

[Start the quiz](https://makethisuseful.com/play/record-keeping-style)

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