How do you organize your pics?

Hey, I'd love to share how I organize my pics, and I think it works really well. Let me know if this works for you.

I don't use software to organize, only view the photos.

Anyways, I start by making really general folders: "Birthdays," "Concert and Shows," "Holidays," "Misc.," "Photos Emailed to Us," "School," "Sports," "Vacation and Trips," and "Weddings."

Then, in each one, it gets more and more specific. For example, here's an excerpt from my site for the vacation and trips folder:

I'd love to hear from people who do it differently and if it works for you. Also, if you don't mind me sharing your advice on my site, write a small description of how you do it (proper English please) and I'll post it, link to you, and give you credit.

 

I put my in folders like you do or I date them.

 

do you think it gets overwhelming after a while (doing it by dates)?

 

I separate them depending in the occasion of the picture and I am making a folder of my Picture, I think right now I have at least 30 folders of my picture. I am not giving dates as a name of folders I prefer name of the occasion or event of that picture.

 

Main dir /Albums

Sub-dirs as /Album/Name1, Name1 etc

 

well got a pic's dir on my external hard drive and there I jsut put the folders named after the location where I took the photos, but I might add some sub-dirs for years

 

I'm making DVD-s from various occasions.

 

I organize them depending in the occasion of the picture

 

i do not organize my photos, and sometimes it take ages to find a photo.

 

yea i do as well.. I put them in folders such as the event like disneyworld july 2008

 

Same scheme here as well

 

I have 3 cameras, so i will make 3 folders for each camera. Each folder will have difference event/place of images. Normally im not sharing my pic online due to copyright issues

 

Oh boy, you guys are making me feel like a neat freak now..

 

No because the date is never going to change