A document management system is the next step in being a responsible and conscientious user. No matter how meticulously, or elegantly you store your information, you are still going to be bound by your operating system in how quickly you can locate items on your storage.
While we could speculate that document management began with cave paintings, and slate drawings, but realistically, the first form of document management dates back to when language was still being formulated. From mud slates in the Sumerian civilization, all the way to modern cloud-based document management here is the history of document management.
