Dating your pages

kendallt

kendallt

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Looking back through my gallery, I've realized that I need to do a better job of including the date on my pages. I really thought I did a good job of that, but now that I'm trying to organize everything chronologically for printing, I've realized...not so much. :thumbdown: Just my little PSA for the day.
 
I made it a habit early on when I started paper scrapping to put a date on every single page, even if it's just a year or a month and the year; this way if I'm printing loose pages for a 3ing binder I can easily organize them. I also save all my Jpegs for printing in this format: mm/dd/yy_title; that way when I upload to a printing site I can easily put them in order if I'm making a photo book.
 
I always always put dates on my layouts - unless I space it. Lol. But, I also name my files with the date at the beginning like Marie, so that I can easily find and organize them. I do it "yymmdd Title."
 
I don't put the date on every layout. It seems silly when I print books in chronological order and the year is on the book. But sometimes I do....
 
icindi said:
I don't put the date on every layout. It seems silly when I print books in chronological order and the year is on the book. But sometimes I do....
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I get that ^^^, but sometimes I want to know the exact date something happened... for example, before my grandmother passed away we all got together at our camp and I have some great photos of her with the great grands and she suddenly passed 3 months later. I'm glad I have that layout with the date we were all together the last time, not knowing it would be the last time. I like knowing the date my daughter learned to ride a bike and the date she got her braces on, etc. :)
 
I am really good about including a date on "event" pages. It's the everyday ones I need to be more diligent about. I like the naming system that includes using the dates. I think I may have to adopt that!
 
Lyd said:
I always always put dates on my layouts - unless I space it. Lol. But, I also name my files with the date at the beginning like Marie, so that I can easily find and organize them. I do it "yymmdd Title."
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Same here!
Well, I do MMYR Title
 
I have to date my layouts! I love knowing exactly when things happened. I also save my files with the date format. Then I can sort by title and they are automatically chronological! I save mine year month day title. Ex: 2016 03 14 Title.
 
I often forget to date mine but try to remember, at least the year, so that there will be some kind of reference for the future b/c I'm terrible at remembering when things happen.
 
I used to be lazy about it and didn't even scrap in order, so if I look back through my March of '09 folder I can't be certain of the date of the photos on the pages. I went back and figured out the dates of every page for a single year once and it look a LONG time, but it was worth it.
 
When I'm scrapping for my yearbook, I date every single page. But when I'm scrapping a vacation book, I only date the first page of a new day.
 
I date every page/file with yy-mm-dd-title. Then when I upload an album to print, it automatically orders itself chronologically.
 
I nearly always put a date (or my kids' ages if the page is about them) somewhere on my LO, even if its tiny text tucked away somewhere not too obvious.
 
I put dates on most of my pages, but I do save them by year,month, date like someone said above too.

I'm getting better at least putting the month and year on a layout.
 
I try and date all of mine as well, all my pictures are labeled with year_month_day and then my layouts are in order I start with 001 and go from there, I do chronological, so if I do scrap out of order I have a folder I label "pages in progress" that a page will get dropped into until it's caught up in the numbering system (because sometimes I just get an idea for pictures and want to do them out of order) and then I will just change the file name (those pages having the date is super helpful).
 
I do what Marie does. I have to date my file/page so that I know when it happened, it's easier when I print out my pages.
 
Oohh I date everything, even my grocery list. I cannot help it. When I was younger and started taking more photos with my dad's camera, I went back and dated ALL of our family photos with month and year.
 
I don't scrap in order so I date almost every one of my pages (sometimes I miss a few) but I do name them by yyyy-mm-dd-titleofpage then saved them in folders organized by year (e.g. 2014_layouts). That way, I can look back if I think I may have already scrapped a photo or event. Plus it's already organized when it comes time to print.
 
My pages are named with year/month/day and if it's a single event or journal kind page I'll date it, but vacation albums and PL pages are not dated (other than the occational calendar card.
 
I don't always date the layout, but I put mine in a year/month folder and then the layout is number by date & number of pages, like for Christmas day it would be 25dec1 in the correct year/month folder.
 
I date all my pages with month and year. I purposely don't use the day unless it's important, like a birthday. I print single pages, and having just the month gives me more freedom to arrange the pages within the album. It would drive me nuts if a page labeled Jan 20 went before one labeled Jan 5, but sometimes I need to put them in that order to work around a 2-page spread or put together 2 similar pages.

My 2 dating exceptions are weekly Project Life pages, which get dated with the full date, and vacation albums, which only get dated on the cover and title page.

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I date all of mine...I print individual pages that MUST be filed chronologically LOL...I don't scrap chronologically...all my files are dated by yymmddevent. I don't have to remember when they were taken because the photo has the information in the properties section on the right click....I sort my photos by year and then use the dates found in the property section to sort the events into separate titled folders. When I have scrapped that event I simply add DONE to the end of the folder name. This REALLY works for me...
 
I've been putting dates on my pages since the first three albums I made. When I save them, I save them "child'sname/children_month and year of layout _ topic01"
**I will write child if just that one child, or if there is more than one, it will be children**

Then when I put my album together, which is not scrapped chronologically, but by whatever I feel like scrapping, I just go by months and theme, making one or two pages together. It's really easy to put my 100-page albums together.

BUT when they were printed, the first 300, I realized I didn't date them. Since then, I've made a conscious effort to date every single layout, whether it's on a tab, embossed, in the photo, on a paper piece. Sometimes it's hidden and I have really look for it--but all my layouts have a date for when I print, it'll be in the album!

I thought every dated their layouts and I was just slow in not doing it because there is usually a date place on most templates. But I never caught on to dating until my first three albums were printed! Oh well, the kids understand. It's a learning experience! :D
 
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