Staying Organized

[scarlettlilly.livejournal.com]

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.

Comments

[blossomdreams.livejournal.com]

Well I have two organization methods. I write out what I'm doing and title it with the fest. Then I write the prompt down so I can remember what I'm doing. It helps me and my tendency to forget things. I have a page where I list all the challenges I'm doing then I go through my notebook and write out the challenges in detail. On my computer I have folders labeled with the fest or what I'm doing. For drabbles I label the folders with the couple like if it's h/d or A/S. If it's something with different characters I label the folder with the comm name.

Hope that helps! :)

[scarlettlilly.livejournal.com]

YES, I have a HUGE tendency to forget things. Like how I forgot about this post until a few minutes ago. I'm thinking the combination of digital and physical will be the best for me too. I don't always have time to get on my laptop during the day, so it would be a good idea to have a notebook with the challenges and reminders and whatnot. Thanks. =]