10/30/2015 RQOTD-How do you organize your digi supplies?

weaselwatchr

weaselwatchr

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I organize by store and then designer. If the designer moves shops, I drag the whole folder into the new shop. I am not sure why this works for me but it does. I don't split kits or organize by theme either. For templates, I make a secret board and pin all my templates I own according to designer name. That way I can quickly see what I have without searching through folders for thumbnails. I pretty much know what style layout I am going for when I am going to make my page so I just go to the board of the designer that fits that style. I wish I would have done this sooner. It makes it a whole lot easier and I tend to use older templates I may have forgotten about. I really need to go back and pin all my kits. What about you? How do you organize your stash?
 
Poorly, that's how :) I will be reading this with interest. Currently I dump my downloads into a month-Store folder. Then after a couple of months I dump that folder into a general store folder. That way the last couple months of downloads are easy to get to.
 
I have one folder on my desktop labeled DIGITAL KITS.
Within this folder I have subfolders labeled by DESIGNER.
Then, obviously, every kit goes into the proper designer folder.

I don't bother by store because I very rarely ever do store challenges; I just scrap for myself (that includes CT layouts, they are always layouts I will use in my albums - I don't scrap it if it isn't for my albums).

I use PICASA (FREE!) to open my kits when I scrap. I can then tag if I want for themes (sports, Christmas, etc.) and I can search by name of kit, theme, designer, or even by element; i.e. button, ribbon, flower, alpha, etc.

Forgot to add that I sort my templates by number of photos in a folder labeled TEMPLATES, so I can bring up what I want in Picasa; i.e. 3 photos and it will bring up my templates with 3 photo spots.
 
I tag everything in Zoner. I read about Zoner when I first started digiscrapping and I am glad that I tagged everything from the beginning. It only takes a few minutes per kit now since I have it all down. I always tag the designer and the color(s) and then I tag the element (flowers, flags, etc) and whatever other category that I might want to search for later ("winter" "Toy Story" "glitter" "toys" "animals" whatever - they are all organized). Then when I want to scrap, I can search really generally (eg. "templates" or "winter" or "Gingerscraps designers") or more specifically ("blue, glitter, striped, paper" or "Connie Prince"). I keep Zoner open on my second screen and if I see something I want to use, I just open it up in photoshop right from zoner.
If I have a specific kit that I want to use, I either open a folder on my second screen or view the whole folder in zoner.

As for storing the supplies, I have a general scrapbooking folder on my EHD. "To Do" folder is where everything is initially downloaded until I tag it. Then it gets put into a folder loosely organized by Designer, then kit.
 
I have a "Supplies" folder on my EHD. Within that folder, I have a folder for each designer, then a folder for each kit. I never split up kits. I don't sort by store.

When I unzip files, I label all the previews "folder" "folder1," etc. so I can easily find my previews (and it shows on the folder without having to open it).

I've started & stopped tagging in PSE & ACDSee more times than I can count!! I just don't seem to have to focus to get the job done! ...and with 428GB of supplies, I don't know that it will ever be done!

Ideally, I want to at least tag by theme, color & template spaces so I can find what I'm looking for.
 
I did that will all my pre 2013 supplies, put them in designer folders. But then I couldn't find new kits by store easily for challenges. So I'm stuck with a folder called To Be Sorted in which I have folders called 2015-10 Gingerscraps, etc. It's not ideal. I started tagging stuff in Picasa once but I stupidly was tagging EVERYTHING in a kit, instead of just the preview pictures. DUH! Then I had to reinstall and lost all my Picasa tags :(
 
I have a folder called Scrapkits --->Designer Name_Designer Kit/papers/templates/elements/alpahs. If I have a lot of kits from a particular designer, they get their own folder. If I have a lot from a store, they have their own folder.
 
Each designer has their own folder. I put all their kits in their folders. I don't split them. I keep them whole but put all papers, masks etc are moved into the elements folder to make one giant kit then I rename that folder to the kit name. I keep alphas in their own folder within the kit too :) I don't sort by store.

I have each designer by year on my EHD. So all 2014 kits in one folder with that designers name. 2015 kits etc. It works for me to store them that way.
 
Basically... I do the same as you do. That is how 'kits' ..."live" on my hard drive. On ACDSee...I've moved more theme oriented [hard drive the same] and templates are by #of photos.
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i have my 2011 and eariler designer a-z. But have the last 11 months, in 11 folders (inside that by store) and am completly lost on what to do with the new. It is all on one drive with all extra tou taken out...
 
I noticed that when I look for kits, its mainly with two constraints - (1) Colour Palette, so looking at previews is very important to me and (2) Store Name when I am doing layouts for challenges. Keeping that in mind, I came up with a system which works well for me. When I get a new kit, I rename it to Designer Name-Store Name-Kit Name. I create subfolders for Papers, Elements and if needed, Alpha/Masks etc and zip them. Only the preview remains unzipped. Then I add only the preview to PSE Organizer and tag it with the store name. When I am looking for a kit, I open the organiser, select the store name under keywords if required and I can look through all the previews in one screen!
 
I've tried SO many organizational methods! This year I tried something new. I put just about everything I've bought all year into one folder. Most of it is from GS designers so I don't worry about stores. I title the kit folder with the date I bought it or received it for CT and name of designer and kit. My goal this year was to use every kit for at least two LO's and use every template. I don't want to keep buying things and not using them. Once I've used up a kit or template pack I move it into my main system, which is basically kits sorted by theme. I'm thinking of splitting up a few kits and cherrypicking some of my favorite supplies to use.
 
For those of you that organize by designer - what do you do when it is a kit created by more than one designer? #thestruggleisreal
 
I rename the kit with the designer's name first and then the kit name. All the kits are just in one Digital Kits folder on my desktop.
 
DianeInOz said:
For those of you that organize by designer - what do you do when it is a kit created by more than one designer? #thestruggleisreal
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Diane...it depends... For kits that are several, I have a file for each store "collabs" - most of the time those are things like the Monthly Mix or blog hops. If it's just 2 designers, I usually file it with the designer I use the most. Or, the first one alphabetically.
 
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