PL Tracking

karlimarie

karlimarie

Sweet Shoppe SugarBabe
I have never been able to complete a full year of weekly spreads. I think the farthest I’ve made it is like 12 weeks. :crying:

I run into several barriers, one of which is keeping track of stuff - events, quotes, which photos I want to use. When I inevitably fall behind and try to catch up, I spend so much time going through photos, Facebook posts, the family calendar, etc that I never get to the scrapping.

I’m sure this is an age-old question, but what are some good solutions for keeping track of things in the moment so I can easily come back to them and pick up where I left off? I honestly can’t even decide if digital or paper tracking is better for me because IRL I use both a paper and digital calendar :confused:

I always come back to wanting to compete a project 52, I don’t want to give up! But I get so overwhelmed. My ADHD makes it nearly impossible to be consistent, but I will continue to be persistent!!
 
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I scrap photos for one of my cousins' family. So I keep track of their events they post to FB on a spreadsheet. I also use OneNote.

The spreadsheet is a list of events by date since I do their books chronologically. I also record the layout name and how many layouts for the event that helps me with setting up the Shutterfly book I will get printed for them.

In One Note, I have a notebook set up for Scrapbooking. One of my tabs is "Layout To Do". I use this to track layouts I want to do for me as well for my cousin. In the tab I have various pages.

For example, my cousin and his family go to a lake in Michigan for 2 weeks every summer and his wife and daughter usually post lots of pics of the things they do with the grandchildren. The daughter is especially good about commenting on the photos on FB (yes, I pull the FB photos to scrap... they know it and love it). So I set up a page on that tab with the year/Lake Name.
Then I copy the comments from FB for the photos so that I do get to scrap them, I don't have to search their FB page. But, I will say that I also "SAVE" these posts on FB as well. If I don't get this page set up, then all I have to do is go to my "Saved Items" on FB to find the posts. Once I've scrapped them, I delete the posts from the "Saved Items".

Once I have scrapped the photos/event, I add the word "DONE" to the title of the page in the OneNote tab.

Personally for me, I use the Layout To Do tab for events I want to scrap. I went on a bus trip vacation in October to Cape Cod. I actually kept a journal while on the trip. The friend I went with posted photos with comments on FB. So when I got back, I copied her comments by date onto the page in One Note. Then with her comments and my journal, I will be able to document everything we did on that trip.

I do keep my photos organized by date on my computer. So when I pulled my friend's photos from FB, I put them in the same folder as my photos for that date in a sub-folder called Cape Cod. So I won't have to go looking for them when I'm ready to scrap the vacation.
 
Virtually all of my scrapping is in a project life type weekly format. I keep all my photos chronologically on my computer, sorted by year and month. To make sure I don't forget things I want to add, I will just screen shot it and save that screen shot in the month I want to scrap. So, for a family calendar, I'd just screen shot it and save the screen shot with my photos for that month. Same with news events, weather, text exFB posts etc. Even if it is a bad screen shot, it reminds me to go back and find that post, text, news story or whatever. As long as I keep up with it, I don't worry too much about missing things.

I also find a list of weeks and their dates online and print that out for the year, so I can cross off a week when I get it done. Then I know where to pick up again.
 
I email myself every morning a small recap of the day before. I add these into my PL templates.
 
DawnMarch said:
Virtually all of my scrapping is in a project life type weekly format. I keep all my photos chronologically on my computer, sorted by year and month. To make sure I don't forget things I want to add, I will just screen shot it and save that screen shot in the month I want to scrap. So, for a family calendar, I'd just screen shot it and save the screen shot with my photos for that month. Same with news events, weather, text exFB posts etc. Even if it is a bad screen shot, it reminds me to go back and find that post, text, news story or whatever. As long as I keep up with it, I don't worry too much about missing things.

I also find a list of weeks and their dates online and print that out for the year, so I can cross off a week when I get it done. Then I know where to pick up again.
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I love the idea of adding screenshots to remember things. I've done this with the weather from time to time, but I will definitely have to expand that to texts and FB posts and what not. Great tip!
 
HavaDrPepper said:
Warning: LONG POST ahead!

I scrap photos for one of my cousins' family. So I keep track of their events they post to FB on a spreadsheet. I also use OneNote.

The spreadsheet is a list of events by date since I do their books chronologically. I also record the layout name and how many layouts for the event that helps me with setting up the Shutterfly book I will get printed for them.

In One Note, I have a notebook set up for Scrapbooking. One of my tabs is "Layout To Do". I use this to track layouts I want to do for me as well for my cousin. In the tab I have various pages.

For example, my cousin and his family go to a lake in Michigan for 2 weeks every summer and his wife and daughter usually post lots of pics of the things they do with the grandchildren. The daughter is especially good about commenting on the photos on FB (yes, I pull the FB photos to scrap... they know it and love it). So I set up a page on that tab with the year/Lake Name.
Then I copy the comments from FB for the photos so that I do get to scrap them, I don't have to search their FB page. But, I will say that I also "SAVE" these posts on FB as well. If I don't get this page set up, then all I have to do is go to my "Saved Items" on FB to find the posts. Once I've scrapped them, I delete the posts from the "Saved Items".

Once I have scrapped the photos/event, I add the word "DONE" to the title of the page in the OneNote tab.

Personally for me, I use the Layout To Do tab for events I want to scrap. I went on a bus trip vacation in October to Cape Cod. I actually kept a journal while on the trip. The friend I went with posted photos with comments on FB. So when I got back, I copied her comments by date onto the page in One Note. Then with her comments and my journal, I will be able to document everything we did on that trip.

I do keep my photos organized by date on my computer. So when I pulled my friend's photos from FB, I put them in the same folder as my photos for that date in a sub-folder called Cape Cod. So I won't have to go looking for them when I'm ready to scrap the vacation.
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This is epic. Thanks for sharing!

I don't use OneNote, but I'll totally check it out. Sometimes I get overwhelmed with all of the choices for task management and to do lists and spend so much time researching only to find that the app doesn't actually suit my needs. But I love seeing how other people use these tools, it gives me a clearer idea of how it looks in practice.

I think that I would be able to follow through more if I had a system like this. Hoping that 2025 is my year!
 
karlimarie said:
This is epic. Thanks for sharing!

I don't use OneNote, but I'll totally check it out. Sometimes I get overwhelmed with all of the choices for task management and to do lists and spend so much time researching only to find that the app doesn't actually suit my needs. But I love seeing how other people use these tools, it gives me a clearer idea of how it looks in practice.

I think that I would be able to follow through more if I had a system like this. Hoping that 2025 is my year!
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I also use OneNote to keep Tips and Tricks for Paint Shop Pro. Like steps to do something that I might do every once in awhile. I'm also learning Affinity Photo so have a page setup for it as well.

I'm doing a challenge on a forum for Paint Shop Pro that will last all year (an ABC challenge of things in your home/life). I've got a page set up with all the letters and as I think of something for a letter, I record the idea. I might think of something for T now but will I remember it by the time we get to that letter... doubtful. So it is also a useful took for brain dumps.
 
Oh Karli - I just thought I'd add this in. I make the page with the background papers for the first week of every month and then I copy those for the other weeks in that month. That way my whole scrapbook is waiting for me as I get to it. I usually change out the papers for the inside boxes but I don't if I'm really in a rush and they still look different. If I make a video this weekend, I'll post it for you!!!!

Here is a video I made a bit ago about me scrapping - but it's from when I was at Gingerscraps so I don't make it public :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPv9bxYH264
 
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