Organizational HELP!

[DigiGirlTN]

Originally Posted by MerylBartho

I too use ACDSee - would not get by without it - frustrating sometimes but love it all the same. Jennifer, what do you mean you could not get it to work? anything we can help with? seems such a shame....

It kept shutting down on me. Id be in the middle of doing something and it would just close. I finally got a reply back from customer service though and I think they fixed it. I am really liking it so I am glad.

[AliSarah]

That's great news Jennifer!! YAY!

Huggles!!
~Sarah~

[Rita (Blue Flower Art)]

Hummie has a tutorial on how to use OneNote to organise your digi supplies:
http://www.digishoptalk.com/boards/s...d.php?t=287144

and I have one on my blog for Windows Explorer.
http://ctrl-alt-doll.net/blog/catego...ing/tutorials/

[MerylBartho]

Originally Posted by DigiGirlTN

It kept shutting down on me. Id be in the middle of doing something and it would just close. I finally got a reply back from customer service though and I think they fixed it. I am really liking it so I am glad.

So glad to hear! I found with their customer service, once you get a reply (after quite a wait) they are quick at getting back (and back, and back....) till the problem is resolved. There is a great set of tutorials HERE, especially written with digiscrapping in mind.

[goodtexan]

I have them by designer.
But as with most things: Too much stuff makes life tough. My best friend is the delete button, delete what you don't need.

If that kit folder gets too big to handle break it up into kits from a-b and so on.... ... I am not so fond of organizing I much rather ride it. So I regularly delete stuff I haven't used. I hold on to templates though. I organize the photos pretty accurately in an almost meticulous way. To me they are the stars not the kits.

[goodtexan]

Originally Posted by DigiGirlTN

It kept shutting down on me. Id be in the middle of doing something and it would just close. I finally got a reply back from customer service though and I think they fixed it. I am really liking it so I am glad.

That's really some GREAT news! I read your other thread and was really thinking about their CS. Have fun, Jenniffer.

[mchelle]

I use Picasa for tagging/viewing everything and on my external hard drive keep everything in folders organized by kit and then another folder for the misc. items such as ribbons, flowers, templates, etc.

I wrote a detailed tutorial on organizing digiscrap supplies a few weeks ago, hopefully it will help a little

http://www.scrapvine.com/2105/organi...king-supplies/

[3BluEyedBabies]

Organizing is not my strongest trait; but I'm working on it! I have lots of scrapbooking folders in alphabetical order mostly by themes. If there is a designer I know well and have a lot of her kits, I will keep all of them in a folder.
For example, I am on a CT for 4MyBabiesScraps. I have a folder with this name that contains a separate folder for each kit and then the pages I have made are also in the designer's folder. Some of the themes I have are

Baby
fishing
flowery (this is where I put kits that use mostly flower elements and don't have a real theme)
traveling
safari/zoo
sports

I try to keep the themed folders simple so when I am scrapping I know a kit about "softball" with be in the "sports" folder for example. The biggest folder is "Disney". In this folder I have another folder for each movie for easy reference and then I have a "Disney Scrapping" folder for items that are Disney but can be used for multiple characters and places.

I also have folders for things that are not themed such as "Cardstock", "Alphas", "Words", etc.

Hope that helps. You have to organize the way your mind works...meaning if you scrap using themes...use that to organize...if you prefer by designer, or color...whatever you are going to REMEMBER for later when it comes time to scrap!

[DeannaJ]

I have most of mine on my externals, but what I keep on my computer are current CT kits, and ones I buy within the past month. At the end of that month, things get transferred to my external.
I have four files on my external--
CT kits>Designer name>kits>>
and the other one
bought kits>designer name>kit


old cts>designer name>kit

store files for collabs if I buy them!
Name of store>collab kit name

[Cassel]

I have my supplies in 3 main categories: PU, CU, to check.
Then, in the PU and CU, i have a KITS folder, but also different types of supplies, like "flowers and vegetation", "ribbons and bows", "overlays", "alpha", and so on.

If i want to find a specific element that might be in a kit (like a "feather"), i use SuperFinderXT. It is a free program that will search all the file names (it will also search IN the files, but for graphic supplies it is not a useful feature, although it is great for text doc). And the search is MUCH MUCH faster than any search function, even from Windows directly.