Staying Organized

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Dear H/D Writers,

Entering the Harry Potter fandom on LJ has quickly led me to the realization that my organizational skills are simply mediocre.

Between all the communities, all the prompts and challenges, I'm absolutely baffled at how to organize everything. It's even more difficult because one story/drabble will include challenges and/or prompts from multiple communities. I originally started out saving each story to a folder for the given community that I wrote it for, but with the combining that I mentioned above, that system doesn't really work as well.

I use Microsoft Word and just the other day I noticed that it  allows you to add tags to the files you want to save, so is that something I should consider using and completely forget about the folders? 

What is your system of organization? Trial and error: what works for you and what doesn't?

I NEED MUCHO HELP.

Desperately,
H/D Writer Buried Under Folders. And they're smirking at me. THEY KNOW.