Acdsee users?

[Jen D]

I am reorganizing because I didn't really like the system I had in place to find all of my supplies. But, my main hang up is paper. Solids are easy but when you get to paper that has mulitple colors I am conflicted on where to put it. I want to be able to use some of the really cute stuff I have and I often forget that I even have it! I had it by stripes, different shapes, etc ... but I found I am never looking for striped paper... just certain color combinations.

How do you separate the multi-colored papers so that you can find them again when you need them?

Thanks for any tips you may have!

[heathert]

I just classify everything as "paper" so when I need a paper, they all pop up. It's easy (well, I use Picasa, don't know how easy it would be in ACDSee) to just scroll through them all and pick and choose--and sometimes I find color combos I wouldn't have thought of!

[Jen D]

I could do that but I have a TON of paper... that could take me hours to get through LOL!

I guess I am thinking I might just leave the patten paper grouped together and maybe separate them some by pastel, primary colors, etc.



I don't want to do all the work to turn around and do it again because it doesn't work for me!

[wookiegirl]

I have a three-tiered system that's been working well for me...

First, I put all my papers in the "paper" category - that way I can see them all at one time if I want.

Then, I have subcategories under "paper..."

One subcategory is "color," which is further subdivided by individual colors. If the paper has more than one color, it goes in more than one color category.

Then I use another group of subcategories to describe the paper. I have things like "solid," "striped," "floral," and "dots" - probably about eight to ten in all. So each paper gets assigned to one of these as well.

So a brown, green, and blue striped paper would be in "paper," "color-brown," "color-green," "color-blue," and "striped."

Hope that makes sense - and helps.

[anke]

I found that I really don't look for particular papers, just papers. So that's how I am doing it now, but I only categorize the previews, it takes a lot less scanning through them and works just as well, plus you already have great combinations together if you chose to use them

[cheekymonkey]

I used to use ACDSee (and loved it), and now that I have a Mac I am getting to know Shoebox, and I use a system similar to Rebecca's (wookiegirl). It takes a bit of time at the beginning to organize it all, but I really do like being able to look up things by color, or style, and I just tag my print papers by the dominant colors in them. I know some people have a category for muliti-bold, multi-pastel, etc. but I haven't found that that worked as well for me, personally.

I found this when I was looking for organizing help and it helped me alot... http://www.digiscrapinfo.com/dsiwiki...1f94ee249471ad

Good luck on your quest for organization nirvana! And when you find it, let me know!

[Elena]

I only tag the previews as well, so that I see everything that's available in a kit. I categorize by color as well as by design or pattern. Good luck!

[AbbyG]

Maybe someone already mentioned it, but Jessica Sprague offers an "Organizing with ACDSee" course on her site. You should check it out! I also have to add - when you do finally get it all organized (which could take a day or two) remember to archive you DB... in case something happens, you wouldn't want to loose all the effort you put into organizing!

[esther_a]

I tag my papers like Rebecca said, and also the previews like Elena. I find the previews are good when I'm looking for particular color combinations.
And I back up my database. Which is just as well because my old computer died, and although I was able to transfer my kits across, I had a new operating system (Vista) the only way to import my ACDSee information was from a backup.
Esther