Google Docs Question of the Day

[rsadelle]

For those of you using Google Docs on a regular basis, how do you organize it so it's not completely overwhelming?

I now have enough things in Google Docs that when I log in, it's just this giant list of documents. I think it might be less overwhelming if I duplicated the naming structure I use for things held locally on my computer (the list of documents in my My Documents folder is not overwhelming to me). The main reason I haven't been doing this is that my naming structure is not particularly descriptive for sharing things with other people. I have no problem remembering that gabevictoria2 is the accidental marriage fic, gabevictoria3 is the actor!Gabe/director!Victoria story, and gabevictoria4 is the girl!Gabe/Victoria d/s fic, but it seems unfair to make other people track that. I've been thinking about maybe using my naming structure with the descriptive title in parentheses. Thoughts? Ideas? Rolled eyes at how I just don't know how to use newfangled internet things?

Comments

[megyal]

Well, I organise mine into major folders: all the fandoms, plus Original stuff, then 'Others'... work that other people send me to look at or beta; random interesting things go into Others as well.

Then... well, it depends on what's going on. In the major fandom folders, I have chaptered stuff in their own folders, so that they can get their own notes I can track, and then I have a "Complete" folder in each major folder that I dump things in once they're done. I try to name things according to Title_Pairing_Fest, if any fest in involved. There's also this 'MAYBE' folder in each, that has ideas that may or may not take flight.

When I go into Docs, though, I click on All Items Opened By Me, so I can see what last I was working on.

[rsadelle]

I haven't been thinking about folders because on my computer I just keep everything I'm working on in the My Documents folder and move things I'm done with into a folder where I never look at them again (because if I want to read it, I just read it on LJ). Maybe I'll try that.

Here's the question I have about your naming scheme: how do you have a title? The title is usually the last thing I come up with for a story!

[megyal]

XD I usually can't start until I name things! But if not, I name it after what it's for, especially for fests and the year. Or by the pairing and the idea.

"Pete/Patrick, shaving" or something like that.

[rsadelle]

Huh. I'm impressed. Titles are hard!