Am I the Only One....

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kresta

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who is getting a little anal about tracking my Sweet Rewards points. Not that I don't trust Meg or anything, I just kept getting confused on what I had done and what hadn't, and if it hadn't been updated in a couple days, I was chancing doing a challenge twice. Maybe it's just my pea brain!

But this month I'm trying the excel sheet for my own tracking, just to see where I am on my own. I list the challenges, the dates I completed and posted, the # of points earned, and what kit I used (just for reference). I even hyperlinked the challenge names to the challenge in the forum, so I can go there quick right from my spreadsheet.

Here's what it looks like:
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I know I'm looking like a super-geek right about now, but it really hasn't taken much time and I feel more organized.

So spill it, what do you do to stay organized? With Sweet Rewards or even w/ CT stuff?

I'm not the only one, right?
 
I just bought a really cute spiral note book to keep track of my LO's for the challenges and also for my CT LO's. Being on 3 CT's and having to post those LO's to 2 or 3 different galleries plus doing all the challenges makes my head spin. But in a good way! So i feel a little bit more organzied with my trusty notebook on my desk. So you're not the only one who likes to keep things straight.
 
I'm way too artsy-fartsy to use an Excel sheet for anything. :p

I download everything to my laptop HD after purchasing/getting it for CT. This is also so I can ACDSee tag my new stuff before it gets moved over into its appropriate folder(s) on my EHDs. I have created a folder for each CT I belong to, and all the new stuff gets copied and put in the designated folder. I know that I still need to use it if it's in that folder, so once I use it, I delete it. I keep the original copy outside the CT folders until I tag and move it to my EHDs. Eventually, my new stuff gets completely deleted from my laptop HD to make room for even NEWER stuff. :)

I don't have an official list of how many layouts I've done per month for my CTs. I just keep track in my head and by looking at my gallery. I'm hardcore like that, yo.
 
That's a great idea, using the Excel worksheet. I should do something like that, too....if I can ever get my act together enough to even do some of the challenges. I have ideas on what I'm going to do but I just can't seem to get around to it....

A worksheet could also help me keep track of which kits came out which week so that I would know what to use to get the extra point...

Helen
 
I use a word document to keep track. When I finish a challenge it gets a blue smiley face, and if I used a new release it gets a blue asterick. I keep a total up at the top, and all the way down at the bottom I keep a list of challenges I didn't get a chance to do, but really want to (which gets longer and each month, but ehatever, lol). I keep it on my flash drive, which goes everywhere I go, so I can update when I need to.

To keep track of everything else, I have a notebook that I keep in my purse. Right now I just put down every lo I make in it (with it's credits and where it was posted, which is the whole purpose for my little notebook), but I think next year I'm going to sort them by each CT. Just cuz it might be a teeny bit easier. Although most of my designers have threads in their forums to post layouts and links to, which def helps me remember what I've done.
 
Haha!! No your not alone! I have a Excel spreadsheet that looks very similar! I was putting a checkmark beside the complete ones, along with the number of points earned for that challenge. Didn't think to add a "kit used" column though! Thanks, :)!!
 
I'm so not that organized! Every week I start a new list that sits in front of me at my desk. I list all my CTs and any new kits they come out with. I also write down any challenges that I want to do that week.

Then I have another list that has all my points for challenges completed so I can reference that if I need to to check my points.
 
I need to do this!!! I am so scattebrained with everything right now and that is so not me! I need a system! LOL
 
I'm not that organized...I have handwritten lists everywhere but I think I may adapt your spreadsheet...It would save me a lot of time trying to figure which layouts I actually did and didn't do...I hate to admit that last month I did a challenge twice...
 
I'm a super-geek too, then, because I have an excel sheet like that for all the challenges of the month (SSD + other sites)!
 
I actually have been keeping track of the Challenges and points in a Composition book (decorated using Bree's comp book templates). I do it that way because I use 3 different computers (2 at home and one at work), and I want to see the challenges some time when I have a few spare moments because I can brainstorm on ideas and sketches. I really only keep track of the SSD and DigiDares, unless there's something special at another site (like when Scrap Artist had their birthday celebration). I put a check if I complete a challenge and a plus if I use a new product right next to the left of the challenge name, and then to the right I give a description of the challenge. I also keep a list each month of the LO's I completed and why I completed them (which challenge or occasion or if there was no reason except my own desire to create). I don't keep track for any other reason really than my own sanity... :blink:
 
you know I'm bad b/c I don't keep track of anything like this :unsure: and for CT's I guess I just have a great memory :p
 
I just keep a note pad document that says sweet rewards and after I do a challenge, I just add it to my list. :)
 
Ha ha! And why was I thinking I'm the only geek that does this???? I should know by now the company that I keep ;)

I keep mine on a Word doc as well, with hyperlinks to each challenge. After I complete the challenge I strike through the text and note how many points I earned after it in bold red. +1 or +2

At the bottom of the list I keep my running total, as long as a wish list of products I want to use my coupon towards :)
 
I have an Excel doc as well. I add the challenges to it and then have a column for the layout name or date I complete the challenge and another column to mark if I use a new product to get the extra point.

I print mine out and write on it more often than I actually enter things into Excel though.

For my CT stuff I unzip those files into a CT stuff file, once I have used it I move it to where ever it belongs in my scrapbook stuff
 
Oh I love hearing how everyone does it their own way! :)

Actually, I'm more organized for these challenges than I am for my CTs. But, with my CTs, I'm always checking the CT boards, so I keep up with it all that way. Right before NSD, when every designer I CT for was putting out 3,192 new items, I had to jot down a list. But in general it's just in my head and on the CT board.
 
Nope, I've been doing an excel sheet every month for a few months after I did a challenge more than once twice! LOL!
 
wow, you gals are hard core.

when I was doing the challenges my way of keeping track was to obsessively check the tracker and then mentally add in what i remembered doing but wasn't on the tracker yet. I also kept checking the list of challenges. Now I see that this wasn't the most efficient way . . .:p

for CTs, i check the CT forums and let that nagging feeling that I'm not doing something remind me. sometimes I will put it on my task list in whatever-the-name-of-the-calendar-app for Thunderbird is.
 
I keep track in a text file on my desktop that I also keep credits in. I delete them off my list once they are on the tracker. Although, really, I only did that in February when I had to get every.single.point. Now.. ehh. LOL
 
I leave it up to Meg for Sweet Rewards.

For CT stuff - not sure but that's the one thing I actually can remember. I'm surprising myself since I'm on 5 CTs. Two of them are very laid back though, no minimums, just use what you d/l, which is just perfect for me. Everyone's really cool and they don't keep tabs.
 
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