Organization

Organization seems to always be the key for January. New Year. Resolutions. New start. Do overs! Trying to organize our lives into something more manageable.

I recently posted a question in the morguefile forum about how to organize pictures. I wanted to know what others were doing and how they were doing it. I had no organization except by dated filed on my computer, which really isn't a way to find something because after a while you tend to forget on what day you took what.

So I spent an entire day organizing them by categories. I even deleted the bad ones (finally).

But my post brought out a lot of comments that others are struggling with this too.

One of the biggest problems is cross categorization. I have not overcome that hurdle.

I'm not any where near needing a separate program to do this. And because I also have family photos, online storage really isn't an option for me. My family life is personal and private. I don't think my family wants to see their pictures plastered on the internet either. Although I did get a really good blackmail shot of my sister and her backside at Christmas :)

I guess for now they will just be in their file folders, sorted by categories. Hopefully when I go to look for something I will remember what category I put it in. ;)

A Chore

I've been taking lots of pictures. Pretty soon morguefile will be letting us upload again. I hope they are ready for the gianormous influx of pictures!

In the meantime, I've got all these pictures on the computer. Arranged by date. Oh, ick. I can't find anything. So I have been debating all morning how to organize them. I guess I am going to go by subject matter.

I don't often like the categories that are given on the photo websites. They seem a little too limiting or else not specific enough.

And of course, there is always the problem of having a photo that could go into other categories. For example, a peacock feather could go in textures. Or it could go in birds. Or it could go in eyes. Or it could go in abstract.

This is going to be an all day long chore I think.

I am supposed to be doing homework but I really can't get my head around it. I guess even an icky large project chore is better than doing my homework.