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Good heavens
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?
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?
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I file them immediately after reading. At a later date, I usually go back and reread them. If a story doesn't strike me as appropriately filed at that point, I'll refile it. If it's really terrific (as most three-star stories are), I'll import it into Word, run a macro on it to clean up the formatting and make it appropriate for reading in a printed version, and then print it and put it in a binder of "greatest hits" (organized by season). Your stories have all been three-star ones!
This system works OK, but I'm hoping to get some ideas for refining it from other comments here.
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Kam :)
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I bookmark things as I find them and apply no organization to them at all. Then, while searching for something else, I'll come across these random bookmarks and say, "What the hell is this?" Later, while searching for that same bookmark, I'll be unable to find it, and will then say, "Where the hell IS the damned thing?"
Of course, this system may not work for everyone.
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If that is a euphemism... I don't wanna know.
Organization
I just recently went through all my "Real Ghostbuster" saved stories (an amazing number of good tales there, too) and grouped them by author, only to discover that all but a handful were by the same 9 or 10 people! It works for me...
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*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.
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The idea of having separate folders for episode tags is a good one, though ... hmm.
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Hmm ... actually, the idea of organizing stories by quality is a good one, because the whole reason why I use the tagging system is to help me remember which ones are good for re-reading ... so maybe some version of that would be the way to go. *ponders*
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ROTLMAO ...
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I save by author and title and usually that's enough to remind me, but I tend not save all that many stories...which habit I probably should change; have gotten back into a fandom after some years out of it and discovered a few authors I like have pulled all their work offline. Dangit! oughta be a law >_>
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So many good ideas here!
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I've been in so many fandoms that it's kind of fun looking back through my saved stories folders, because it's like a year-by-year tour of all the many fannish twists and turns that I've been through -- including a few that I don't remember being fannish about at all. And then there's my "misc" folder, which has some *darned* weird stuff in it. (Hitchiker's Guide slash? wtf?)
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As long as the system works for you :)
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Which is actually the main reason why I went and put my long stories all on one page on my own fanfic site. I really *wish* that I could just click one button and save some of the long stories I've read!
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I've always tended to think of stories more in terms of their individual content than who wrote them, because usually when I go back and re-read, my thought process is more like, "I want to read something cute and fluffy and fun" rather than "I want to read something by Skoosiepants." So the natural way that came to my mind for grouping stuff was by content rather than author. But author would probably be a whole lot easier, come to think of it.
Quite a fascinating discussion!
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