Good heavens

[sholio]

I've got 522 SGA stories saved to my hard drive. I've never had this happen before, but I think I'm actually going to need to go through and do more organizing than just shoving them into a folder labeled SGA, which is all I've ever done when saving fanfic in the past. It's not necessarily that I haven't read this prolifically in a fandom before; it's just that I don't think I've ever a) encountered a fandom with this many good stories and b) found so many that I wanted to save for re-reading.

The question is, how to organize them? My usual method is to tag the filenames with little notes to give me some vague indication of the content of the file (e.g. labels like "aww" or "slash" or "funny" or "vignette"). There's no real system to it, though -- it's just whatever aspect of the story predominated in my head, so I might have two very similar stories where one is tagged "cute" and the other is tagged "funny" or "nice" or one of the many other highly subjective tags that I use. I guess it would probably be a good idea to separate out the slash from the gen ... and the ones I really liked from the ones that had good parts but weren't that great overall ... hmm.

For those of you who either save stories to your hard drive, or bookmark the ones you liked, what sort of organization do you use? How well does it work for you?

Comments

[amalthia]

I have folders in my SGA folder labeled by Author. that seems to work the best. Any author wiht more than 3 stories gets their own folder. Of course depending on how you saved them it may take some time figuring out who wrote what...

[friendshipper.livejournal.com]

Of course depending on how you saved them it may take some time figuring out who wrote what...

*laughs* Yeah, I think that would be the big problem ...

I might end up giving some of the more oft-read authors their own folder, though. Not a bad idea.

[bibliotech.livejournal.com]

That's what I do with the stories I save. When I was in Lotrips, I just saved by pairing, and everything's such a muddle. Now, I have a folder for each pairing, and in each pairing folder I save the stories by author. It makes life much easier for me.