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

[leenys.livejournal.com]

I'd alpha them by title with a tag that is key to that particular story, the thing that drew you to it in the first place, just a few words. Not "Cute" or "funny", but things like "shark" "monster" "rodney head injury" "shep blows up Radek's fruitcake", something like that.

Kam :)

[blade-girl.livejournal.com]

"shep blows up Radek's fruitcake"

If that is a euphemism... I don't wanna know.

[friendshipper.livejournal.com]

If that is a euphemism... I don't wanna know.

ROTLMAO ...

[friendshipper.livejournal.com]

Hmm ... the *only* problem with this is that I'm kind of limited on how long my file names can be -- which was why I originally started using the "cute", "funny", etc. tags. However, maybe folders for different *kinds* of stories -- the long angsty epics, the short silly ones, episode tags, hmm ... I kind of like that idea!