Question on organization

[tsaiko]

Okay, this is directed at the all the writers on my friend's list. How do you organize your files on your computer? Specifically, your stories. How do you break it up into manageable bits? Do you seperate by genre? Then how do you seperate it further? What do you do with stories that could fall into more than one genre? How do you prevent yourself from having so many folders and subfolders that you forget what you've started?

The reason I'm asking is I've got between 250-350 stories on my computer. Some of the folders are getting ridiculously full even after I put all the series into their own subfolders. I'm beginning to lose things. That drives me insane.

Any suggestions?

Comments

[eternalism.livejournal.com]

All of my stories go into a folder titled "Writing". If I write a lot of stories in one particular world or one particular fandom, I stick them in another appropriately titled folder in my writing folder. Writing challenges go into their own folder regardless of genre, fandom, or world. Other than that, everything just gets auto-sorted by title, and I leave it at that.

Of course, I don't have over 200 stories on my computer. If I did, I'd probably have to redo my entire filing system!