[spam] RE: [Sigia-l] organizing pictures

[Dave Collins]

I don't make that many - rarely more than 1 download a month - but I
keep them in a folder like yours. I prefer to streamline them though,
with more root folder and fewer subfolders, like this:

My Pictures
- 2003 01-Jan 01
- 2003 01-Apr 10
- 2003 01-Nov 11
- 2003 01-Dec 25 Christmas
- 2004 01-Jan 02
- 2004 01-Jan 09 Holiday
- 2004 01-Jan 10 Birthday
- 2004 02-Feb 01

You can see how this wouldn't scale all that well because it has a
root-level folder for every day of every month of every year.

On the other hand, since date-indexing is so intuitive and effort
efficient, finding the correct folder is still a  snap. I would argue
that locating and opening a specific folder is at least as fast as your
more-explicit-yet-more-complex structure.

(It actually gets easier with *more* folders because the progression
from month-to-month and year-to-year becomes more obvious to quick
scanning.)

Dave


>How do you organize your digital pictures? Pros and cons?
>
>I make a few hundred pictures a month. I use the folder structure to
>organize my pictures, like this: (not all folders opened)
>
>My Pictures
>- 2002
>- 2003
>- 2004
>-- 1 jan
>-- 2 feb
>--- holiday
>--- maria birthday
>-- 3 mar
>
>
>I put pictures in monthly folders, and sometimes add a topical
>subfolder. Sometimes I do a subfolder by date if I just take lots of
>pictures one day but there's no specific topic for them. Seems to work
>and scale pretty well for me. 
>
>The months are labeled "1 jan" because just doing "1" doesn't work (I
>can never remember what number august is), and just doing "jan" doesn't
>work either (sorting alphabetically).

Peter
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