Cleaning The Stuff and A Nifty Article.

[huinare]

- Project Clean And Organize All The Things continues.  The project has been extended to All The Computer Files as well.  I need to spring for an actual mop.  I broke the plastic-and-foam-blob the dollar store provided, sewed it back together with yarn and a tapestry needle, broke it again, and the floor still isn't mopped enough. 

- Messaging a bunch of people I want/need to maintain contact with.  Today is also Pretense At Social Networking Day.

- Continuing the cheery dream trend, this early morning's foray into Imro's realm involved a table, a lion, and a guy with a crowbar.

- I'm liking the 'convert to MP3' Firefox add-on for Youtube!

- A nifty article on the usefulness of fanfiction.  Passing it on from lindahoyland's LJ.

Comments

[missingislands.livejournal.com]

Wait, the guy wasn't beheaded right? Or the lion?

I have to be one of the only people in the world who actually loves and gets a kick out of organizing computer files. I'm awful. As soon as I download I put it in the right folder. More likely its sub-sub-sub-sub folder though, because just a folder called "pictures" is not enough for me. Oh no! Even just saving gifs becomes something like pictures>gifs>(sorted by theme)>(sorted by emotion depicted)>(sorted by medium used) ( drawn, movie clips, etc)>(sorted by whatever it's from)etc etc. You really don't want to know about my music folder organisation. :P

[huinare.livejournal.com]

Not...exactly...

Usually I like organizing stuff, but for some reason computer files always seem like too much pressure to me. "What genre is this?! It's kinda several. Do I have enough songs by this artist to merit a whole folder for the artist? Do I listen to this artist enough to put it in my main music folder without any subfolders, so that it's easily accessible?! Gahhhh..."

[missingislands.livejournal.com]

Haha, I have artist folders with one song in them. With a subfolder for the album it was on. I'm that bad.

Sorting by genre can be a bit of a pain, but sorting by decade, among other things of course, is generally very effective. Well, to me. But then I like folders and actually find it makes my music more accessible. But then that is probably due to the amount of music currently on my computer, which would make it nearly impossible to navigate without folder craziness. I often delete a lot of files but it's still over 30 GB and increasing every day, not counting my external harddrive. I once bluescreened my computer by downloading too much music at once and am sort of in denial about the unsorted collected rare music on the that thing because some of it doesn't have names of artists or any information attached. D= Probably the only thing I don't look forward to sorting.

[huinare.livejournal.com]

I approve of the subfolder complexity. The only reason I don't do the same is that my penchant for order is matched only by my penchant for efficiency. I find it more efficient to have the things I listen to most in my main 'audio' folder, hence the Lord of the Rings Musical soundtrack has its own folder there even though it should be a subfolder in 'soundtracks.'

In my sorting efforts, I recently made a folder entitled '5 or fewer songs per artist,' with a bunch of subfolders for these less-well-loved artists, and another called 'sundry by name' which is a bunch of miscellaneous stuff arranged by title instead of artist (since for most of them I don't remember who the artist is and will be seeking them by title if I feel like accessing them).

Not that I overthink any of this. =D

...some of it doesn't have names of artists or any information attached. D=

Nooo! I hate it when that happens. MUST CLASSIFY ALL THE THINGS.