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

[velithya]

Jumping in late on my friends.list catchup: I have a folder called "Stories". Inside that I have a folder for each story, and one called "shorts" that has all the really short stuff that I wrote back in school and such. Anything that's like a paragraph or something just has its own .txt file in the main folder.

[velithya]

I imagine it helps that I don't fanfic, though. :)