How do your organize your digi kits and collections

EvelynD2

EvelynD2

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I organize my kits by designer but am thinking about making categories under each designer. I keep my kits on an external hard drive and normally just scroll through each designer's folder but I'm thinking about making category folders. How do you organize your scrap goodies?
 
I organize by designer in a folder system, but I also use ACDSEE to organize/tag my kits. I also tag by designer, for templates I tag by # of photos. It's something else to keep up with, but I don't know how I'd scrap without it now.
I have quite a few categories for kits including: Adventure, Baby, Birthday, Christmas, Circus, Disney, Easter, Everyday, Fair, Fall, Family, food, Games/Sports, Halloween, Home, Moments/Sentiments/Relationships, Movies, Outdoors, Patriotic, School, St. Patrick's Day, Universal Studios, Vacation, Valentine, Winter, Zoo. Some of those have categories within them too.
 
I have folders for each theme, as well folders for Templates (I have a folder for Christmas so far, but I really should label with number of photo spots - I started out doing that early on, but then I stopped for some forgotten reason. LOL), Elements, Styles, Actions, Paints, etc. I label my kits with the designer first then the name of the kit. If I'm ever on a CT again, that still should work for me.
 
Store/Designer/Kit

I put everything but the alphas in the main kit folder. I'm a one kit scrapper so this works for me.

However, I have put a copy of all the previews into a different folder and use Bridge to look at them. The previews are also in folders by store. I have named each of the previews with initials of the designer before the kit name so they all sort within the folder by designer. Only the template designers are in a sub-folder of the store folder.

Then if I want to use a kit from a specific store, I choose that folder to show. The previews are tagged by their theme so I can use the filter panel and select a keyword to show. I also have labels set up for "kit used" and "template used". Once I've used a kit or template I apply the label and I can also exclude these in the filter panel. This has helped me to use up some of that old stash I've got!
 
I organize by designer but if the kit is a part of a collaboration, then those go in a "Colab" folder.

I work on a Mac and use tags so I can easily search for just about anything.
 
This is very similar to how I have always done mine.

A couple things I've started in recent years with hard drive issues is I now do Designer and then I include a year in their folder, just makes it's a little easier.

And I tag the like Corey said, which I love, because everything stays in the designers folder, but I can tag one thing 100 times if I want.

Txcorey said:
I organize by designer in a folder system, but I also use ACDSEE to organize/tag my kits. I also tag by designer, for templates I tag by # of photos. It's something else to keep up with, but I don't know how I'd scrap without it now.
I have quite a few categories for kits including: Adventure, Baby, Birthday, Christmas, Circus, Disney, Easter, Everyday, Fair, Fall, Family, food, Games/Sports, Halloween, Home, Moments/Sentiments/Relationships, Movies, Outdoors, Patriotic, School, St. Patrick's Day, Universal Studios, Vacation, Valentine, Winter, Zoo. Some of those have categories within them too.
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I organize by designer.

When I download a kit, I put everything except the alphas into one folder. The alphas go into one folder inside the kit folder.

I rename everything so that it is conforming and easier to search designer initials_kit name_paper, paper_solid, flower, string, etc. I change the .png files to .tif because my goal (at some point, but far down on my list!) is to tag everything in the PSE Organizer.

I rename my templates designer initials_temp name_number of photos.

The reason I change .png to .tif is because I've tagged everything before and lost my tags because (as I understand it) .png files don't have metadata that the tags can be stored to.

I had been putting a copy of the preview image into a file by category, but I was forgetting to do it keep it up, so I just stopped.

Right now, if I need a birthday kit, I can type "birthday" into the folder search bar and any kits that have the name birthday or word pieces that have "birthday" in them will come up and I can find a kit that way.
 
I do a little of both. I put everything on an external hard drive. I have a huge KITS folder that has 35 different themes. I also have a CT DESIGNERS folder that I then have designers that I ct for- those are the only ones I organize by designers. Now that I'm a babe, I still jut put those designers in those folders & then other supplies in the themed folders. I probably should redo that system, but that can be saved for a day that I have extra time. ;)
 
AmieN1 said:
I do a little of both. I put everything on an external hard drive. I have a huge KITS folder that has 35 different themes. I also have a CT DESIGNERS folder that I then have designers that I ct for- those are the only ones I organize by designers. Now that I'm a babe, I still jut put those designers in those folders & then other supplies in the themed folders. I probably should redo that system, but that can be saved for a day that I have extra time. ;)
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Extra time? What's that? ;)
 
craftytam said:
I organize by designer.

When I download a kit, I put everything except the alphas into one folder. The alphas go into one folder inside the kit folder.

I rename everything so that it is conforming and easier to search designer initials_kit name_paper, paper_solid, flower, string, etc. I change the .png files to .tif because my goal (at some point, but far down on my list!) is to tag everything in the PSE Organizer.

I rename my templates designer initials_temp name_number of photos.

The reason I change .png to .tif is because I've tagged everything before and lost my tags because (as I understand it) .png files don't have metadata that the tags can be stored to.

I had been putting a copy of the preview image into a file by category, but I was forgetting to do it keep it up, so I just stopped.

Right now, if I need a birthday kit, I can type "birthday" into the folder search bar and any kits that have the name birthday or word pieces that have "birthday" in them will come up and I can find a kit that way.
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Wow! Tammy! I think this is awesome!!
 
On my external hard drive (which is always plugged in and I can't even reach without standing up), I have folders for papers, elements, and templates. Within each of those are folders for designers and then inside the designer folders are individual kits.

I have a Google Sheets where I track themes, my on-going to-scrap list, and ideas for using future products. For example, I went shopping over the weekend and bought some kits for going to the zoo & Busch Gardens for my mom's birthday so they're listed alongside what I want to use them for. When I'm scrapping, I'll Ctrl + F my Google Sheet and find the notes I left myself. The list keeps growing as I get more supplies and leave myself notes but it's been a great way to declutter my brain a little.

I'll also occasionally just search the store when I need inspiration. I'm on Cheryl's CT and find it easier to 'shop' her store to pick a template for my personal pages than to go through my hard drive.
 
Mine are organized by theme: birthday, Christmas, School...Travel is more spread out- travel Cruise, travel USA, Travel countries, travel hiking, travel general. I have a few kits from other stores, and those are in a folder under the store name.

Disney kits is another thing! They are in one BIG folder, and then by character, park, theme, area of park etc. Dis frontier, dis Aladdin, dis celebrate, dis fireworks...etc
 
I I organize my kits by shop and then by designer, nothing fancy...I give every kit it's own folder and name it as it is
 
I put all parts of the kit in their original folder, in a new folder that I named. Like, CT-SSD-name of designer_name of the kit. And then I will change the picture of the folder into the preview of the kit.
 
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