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I organise mine by subject matter. I do that because, when starting a new project the first thing I think is -what is the subject matter, maybe a birth sampler or christmas card. If they are filed that way I can go straight to that section and look for what I want. Some sections such as Christmas are huge so they are broken down into sub sections such as large pictures, cards, decorations, then further down again to categories such as Santa, Rudolph, outdoor scenes, trees etc. I find this works for me
As I create a 'heading ' I number it for example 25 christmas (that's always easy to remember) all my blackwork and monochrome charts are together, fantasy etc are numbered 4 so I have 4 ANGELS, 4 FAIRIES, 4 MYSTICAL and all branded items like Beatrix Potter and Hummel have 7 in front. It evolved over about 3 years and seems to work.
I have them all on an external hard drive so they ar safe if the computer crashes. I lost 3 years work about 3 years ago so had to start from scratch again. It was easier the second time because I already had the titles of the folders in my head. Once the headers are in place it becomes simple to always file new charts in the correct sub heading. Starting with hundreds of charts is a nightmare but soonest started soonest mended as my old gran used to say |
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