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Zahariel
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  1. 1. How do you organise your ringbinder?

    • By show / movie
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    • Alphabetically
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    • By event
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    • In order of popularity
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    • Random
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    • Other (please explain below)
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So being a Virgo I like a place for everything and everything in it's place - I've been mulling over the best way to sort my photo shoots and autographs recently now that I've got a few more. At present I have them sorted by show and was going to have A4 designed dividers but I have also been leaning towards just doing it alphabetically, there are some guests that I meet for more then one show or for no show at all (Simply because they're too cool to miss...)

 

I was wondering how people sort their collections? Is there a piece of software you use as a database too?

 

Also for those who use ring binders / archival storage boxes - How many sheets would you have per binder / box?

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I have different ring binders for different shows or movies, and each photo is in an Ultra Pro Magazine Pocket. I then have other binders for general movies, tv etc and then magazine I lay flat , one per box so nothing is pressing down on them, as signatures on shiny covers of magazine can sometimes get worn.

 

I probably have too many photos in my ring binders , so currently looking to purchase some more to spread them out and let them breath a bit !

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Smaller weekend events (Hallowhedon and the like) get their own small binders which have a spine label printed with name/date of the event

Bigger signing events all go chronologically into bigger folders (I just finished the 3rd such folder) with photoshoots at the back.

Autos from any other type of event (store signings, premieres etc) go into another set of folders (again chronologically by event)

 

I don't have a database of my 'collection' per se, I just have a chronological list of who I have met with dates and places (and links to photos), as linked in my signature.

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Smaller weekend events (Hallowhedon and the like) get their own small binders which have a spine label printed with name/date of the event

Bigger signing events all go chronologically into bigger folders (I just finished the 3rd such folder) with photoshoots at the back.

Autos from any other type of event (store signings, premieres etc) go into another set of folders (again chronologically by event)

 

I don't have a database of my 'collection' per se, I just have a chronological list of who I have met with dates and places (and links to photos), as linked in my signature.

 

It was your signature link that got me thinking about this - Doing an excel sheet at the moment and I'll find an online solution later...

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I just realised I didn't answer the other part of your question, I don't have a database as such, I did start one with loads of detail of who had signed, what they had signed, when they had signed at what event etc, but as I had already been collecting many years by then I didn't have all the data or the will to complete it !

 

So instead for the last few years I scan in all the autos I get straight away into an event folder and then put a copy into a genre specific or show specific folder , so for example I scanned in all my autos and photos from the Summer LFCC last year, but where I have a separate folder, e.g. Stargate, I put a copy of my Amanda Tapping auto and photo in their as well. I do both, because I've been to so many shows I'd never remember where to look, where as I know if I go to the Stargate folder I can find all my autos and photos in the same place but I also know where I originally got them as they are also in an event folder as well.

 

Prior to this I have a lot of autos and photos I need to scan in , so that is still a work in progress as many of these were photos pre digital.

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Think I'll stick to having them by show in the folder and alphabetically in my excel sheet, linked to my flickr scans or imdb pages. Interesting to see the differences we all have to the way we store our 'precious'

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