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		<title>Homeschool Files</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2016 03:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>If you are a homeschool family, and you use the internet at all, you know there are TONS of resources available. Some...</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you are a homeschool family, and you use the internet at all, you know there are TONS of resources available.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>Some paid. Some free.<br />
Some your own.<br />
Some physical. Some virtual.<br />
ALL requiring storage of some sort.<br />
</strong></em></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>My experience:</strong> physical files and school resources can overrun your house if you don&#8217;t watch out. Since I have two children and we live in an approx 700sq ft apartment, I wanted an easy way to store things waiting for the next child. We didn&#8217;t always use everything at the same time, but I always needed to have it semi-close by.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><em>What I didn&#8217;t expect was how the virtual files weren&#8217;t any different, they were actually MORE overwhelming because I couldn&#8217;t tangibly sort them.</em> There were numerous <a href="http://dotandink.com/file-type/">file types</a>, and I tried to keep the files/classes/resources each child &#8211; grade &#8211; subject, but I found it took longer to find virtual documents on the computer when it was misplaced [or named differently than what made sense to me] than it did to find a real piece of paper in a pile. Just like physical files/resources/stuff; your virtual files can totally fill up and clog your computer. Also, just because something is in the computer doesn&#8217;t mean you can find it &#8211; <em>[ask me how I know </em>&#x1f633;!<em>]</em>.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">We homeschool. I have been a homeschool mom for 15 years now; we have always been enrolled in one of several homeschool program options available in our state. Which means we receive money from the State in the form of an allotment. This means there are of course rules, and State accountability we must turn in (as it should be, we&#8217;re using State funds). We can&#8217;t use this money for certain things, two examples are faith based curriculum and equipment. Typically, you pay out of pocket and turn in a reimbursement. &#8230;. This means more paper, more virtual files, to track. The following screenshots are how I have files set up.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://staging.dotandink.com/homeschool-files/school-files1/" rel="attachment wp-att-1271"><img alt="" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1271" src="https://staging.dotandink.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/School-Files1.jpg" alt="" width="346" height="139" srcset="https://dotandink.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/School-Files1.jpg 346w, https://dotandink.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/School-Files1-300x121.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 346px) 100vw, 346px" /></a><strong>Folder Name = school year (grades)</strong></p>
<p>You can see I named the &#8220;top&#8221; level folder simply &#8220;SCHOOL&#8221;. Inside this folder, I have a folder for each school year and the grades my two were in at the time. (these are just the high school years)</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://staging.dotandink.com/school-files2/"><img alt="" fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1276" src="https://staging.dotandink.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/School-Files2.jpg" alt="" width="290" height="249" /></a>Inside each year I have the files applying to both students.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>File Name = • [what it is]</strong></p>
<p>Using alt/option and the &#8216;8&#8217; key gives the bullet, keeping these files in alphabetical order at the top of my folder. I didn&#8217;t put the schedule into their separate files simply because I went to it too often, and it eliminated a step when wanting to look at the schedule by having it just inside the year. To me, it was kind like taping the most important info into the front of the folder.</p>
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<p><a href="https://staging.dotandink.com/school-files3/"><img alt="" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1277" src="https://staging.dotandink.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/School-Files3.jpg" alt="" width="363" height="308" srcset="https://dotandink.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/School-Files3.jpg 363w, https://dotandink.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/School-Files3-300x255.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 363px) 100vw, 363px" /></a>Once you open up one student folder, you see three options: Reimbursements, Semester 1 and Semester 2. Super simple.</p>
<p>You could add a folder for &#8220;Curriculum&#8221;, then one for each subject you have virtual files for. I did this before I figured out my daughter does not learn on a screen. I was saving stuff from my son, who loved as much info in the computer/iPad as possible, but then I ditched it all. Most of it was a bunch of free resources, the one I paid for was already in printed form &amp; spiral bound, so the digital file went away.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://staging.dotandink.com/school-files4/"><img alt="" loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1278" src="https://staging.dotandink.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/School-Files4.jpg" alt="" width="406" height="464" srcset="https://dotandink.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/School-Files4.jpg 406w, https://dotandink.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/School-Files4-263x300.jpg 263w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px" /></a><strong>File Name = studentinitial[grade] Quarter/Semester SubjectName</strong></p>
<p>The way our homeschool program works, we turn in Work Samples at the end of each Semester to &#8220;prove&#8221; the grade we recommend. So, while there is one file for Christine, 10th grade, Semester1 in Geometry &#8211; that PDF file is actually a scan of the whole semester&#8217;s worth (or three points of semester, depending on what our contact teacher wants) of math lessons.</p>
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<p><a href="https://staging.dotandink.com/school-files5/"><img alt="" loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1279" src="https://staging.dotandink.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/School-Files5.jpg" alt="" width="364" height="325" srcset="https://dotandink.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/School-Files5.jpg 364w, https://dotandink.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/School-Files5-300x268.jpg 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 364px) 100vw, 364px" /></a>You can see inside my son&#8217;s Senior year folder, there is another important paper. College admission information, this wasn&#8217;t looked at as frequently so I left it in just his folder &#8211; with a • in front so it stayed at the top of my alphabetical list.</p>
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<p><a href="https://staging.dotandink.com/school-files6/"><img alt="" loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1286" src="https://staging.dotandink.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/School-Files6.jpg" alt="" width="435" height="685" srcset="https://dotandink.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/School-Files6.jpg 435w, https://dotandink.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/School-Files6-191x300.jpg 191w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 435px) 100vw, 435px" /></a>This is just showing the difference between two students and two grades for one year. I have the two Semester 1 files open so you can see the difference in naming. The great thing about this is if I can&#8217;t remember what year one of them took a specific subject, I can just search the subject name. The computer will bring up both and I can see by the file name.</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://dotandink.com/homeschool-files/">Homeschool Files</a> appeared first on <a href="https://dotandink.com">Dot&amp;Ink Designs</a>.</p>
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		<title>Accessibility to Virtual Files</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2016 07:37:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>What about when you have virtual files in multiple locations or want to use different devices to access those files? Envision, you&#8217;re...</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What about when you have virtual files in multiple locations or want to use different devices to access those files?</p>
<p>Envision, you&#8217;re working on a document in MSWord &#8211; on your computer at home. Now, you need to leave real quick to run into town. While you&#8217;re in town, you run into someone who&#8217;s knows more information about what you were writing on &#8211; you want to send them the file so they can double-check some information for you.</p>
<ul>
<li>Do you have to wait to get home and email it to them? (Running the risk of forgetting once you get home); <strong>OR</strong></li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Can you send the file to them while you&#8217;re standing there talking? (or maybe wait until they walk away)</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>The answer is </strong></em><b><i>yes,</i></b> but it will depend on <em>where</em> you saved the file.</p>
<p>OR how about when you&#8217;re working on a project, and the power/internet at your house just went out. You need to gather up your laptop and head to a coffee shop to work a few more hours.</p>
<ul>
<li>If the file is in your desktop, you&#8217;re out of luck &#8211; unless you&#8217;ve been working on the file in &#8220;the cloud&#8221; or had time to properly eject the external hard drive.</li>
<li>If the file is on your external hard drive, and you happened to be working on your laptop at the time, you can just disconnect the external hard drive and take it &amp; your laptop to the coffee shop (because the laptop has a battery, you&#8217;ll have time to properly eject the hard drive). &lt;- This happened to me this week. While it was annoying to have to stop everything and run to town. I was really thankful I&#8217;d been working on the laptop to start with.</li>
</ul>
<h2><em><span style="color: #568997;">Accessibility:</span></em></h2>
<p style="text-align: left;">There are a few variables here:</p>
<ol>
<li style="text-align: left;">In the first scenario above, if you saved the file only on your computer&#8217;s hard drive/on an external hard drive before leaving, you will have to wait until you get home to send it on.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">If you saved the file to One Drive/Google Docs/iCloud/Drop Box (&#8220;the Cloud&#8221;), the file can be accessed as long as you have your account login information.
<ul>
<li style="text-align: left;">If you want to access your Cloud files from your phone, you will have to have the appropriate app installed for the platform you are using. From the app you log into your account and then can send the file from your phone standing in the middle of wherever &#8211; as long as you have wi-fi or cell service.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ol>
<h2><span style="color: #568997;"><em>Which MSOffice do you have?</em></span></h2>
<p>Do you have MSWord on your computer (installed from a disc a few years ago), or do you use a cloud based version of MSOffice or Office 365?</p>
<ol>
<li>IF you have MSWord on your computer, from years ago and it was a disc installation, One Drive is not an option. <em>Unless you have created a Microsoft account and set it up independently and you manually save files there (like one would with DropBox).</em></li>
<li>IF you have MSWord downloaded (not disc installation), THEN you may have saved your files into <em>either</em> the hard drive of your computer or in One Drive. <em>When I purchased my last version of MSOffice for Mac, it was a code for a download. So, I have the option of storing things in One Drive, but I choose not to.</em>
<ul>
<li>The settings default in this case is One Drive.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>IF you have the monthly subscription version of MSOffice, which is called Office 365, I believe the default there is also One Drive.</li>
</ol>
<p><em><strong>So, it really comes down to how instantly you need to have access at all times.</strong> </em>As I already told you, I spent a lot of time getting all my files into the cloud just to get hung up without strong/fast enough internet to consistently access what I needed. If you live in a rural area and there isn&#8217;t always instant, super fast internet/cell service, you might not want to go this route either. I believe since I tried, many platforms allow for &#8220;working offline&#8221; &#8211; so the internet isn&#8217;t as much of an issue because it&#8217;s okay if the connection comes and goes while your working on the document.</p>
<h2><em><span style="color: #568997;">Data Usage:</span></em></h2>
<p>Another aspect to take into consideration: are you limited on data download &#8211; either at home or on your other devices? My constantly trying to access files in the cloud, downloading them to work on them, and the saving process then re-uploading, wreaked havoc on our download limits. In Alaska, we still have the issue of the amount of internet data (downloads/uploads) used is monitored. <em>(current example: we pay $94/month to have 250GB we can download/upload/stream. My son just moved into his own apartment and set up his internet &#8211; he&#8217;s paying $29.99 for 1TB of download/upload/streaming!)</em></p>
<h2><em><span style="color: #568997;">Updates:</span></em></h2>
<p>Another issue I ran into &#8211; every.single.time I tried to open a MSOffice program, it wanted to update. <em>For example, say I used MSWord, went thru the whole stupid update process (for all of MSOffice, whether you use each program or not)&#8230;then tried to open Excel &#8211; I had to go thru the update process again &#8211; for all three programs! Now, to be totally fair &#8211; maybe it&#8217;s because cloud storage is much newer than my computers and the problems were at my computer&#8217;s end.</em></p>
<p>I do know our Alaska internet download limits, and lack of consistent &amp; fast internet were not issues related to my older computers. So, regardless of whether you can work offline or not, make sure your internet package can handle cloud storage.</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://dotandink.com/accessibility-to-virtual-files/">Accessibility to Virtual Files</a> appeared first on <a href="https://dotandink.com">Dot&amp;Ink Designs</a>.</p>
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		<title>Finding Your Virtual Files (part 2)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2016 06:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>On day 12 I talked about Finding Your Virtual Files &#8211; I wanted to explain something a little bit more today. Remember how I said it&#8217;s...</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On day 12 I talked about <a href="http://dotandink.com/finding-your-virtual-files/">Finding Your Virtual Files</a> &#8211; I wanted to explain something a little bit more today.</p>
<p>Remember how I said it&#8217;s similar to getting directions:</p>
<ul>
<li>Where are you starting from?</li>
<li>Where do you need the file to be for access later?</li>
</ul>
<p>The &#8220;<em>starting from</em>&#8221; is where you have clicked on the left column. The &#8220;<em>where you need the file to be</em>&#8221; is in the saving process, and whether you <a href="http://dotandink.com/save-or-save-as/">save or save as</a>.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-615 aligncenter" src="http://dotandink.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Storage-Finding.png" alt="storage-finding" width="537" height="394" srcset="https://dotandink.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Storage-Finding.png 537w, https://dotandink.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Storage-Finding-300x220.png 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 537px) 100vw, 537px" /></p>
<p>But, when you&#8217;re looking at this (or the Windows version) it can look like a whole lot of nothing. Imagine the left column is a hallway with lots of doors.</p>
<p><span style="color: #255d56;"><em><strong>How do you track which files you&#8217;ll find behind which door?</strong> </em></span>Simple: consistency in naming and location.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-759 aligncenter" src="http://dotandink.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Storage-Finding-cloud.png" alt="storage-finding-cloud" width="537" height="394" srcset="https://dotandink.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Storage-Finding-cloud.png 537w, https://dotandink.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Storage-Finding-cloud-300x220.png 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 537px) 100vw, 537px" /></p>
<p>The blue box is over the door into the <span style="color: #568997;"><em><strong>iCloud Drive</strong></em></span>. If you&#8217;re using a different Cloud based drive, such as Google Drive (Google) or One Drive (MsOffice), you would access those files differently, even though they&#8217;re &#8220;in the Cloud&#8221;; they&#8217;re only accessible by logging into the platform (obviously iCloud is Apple, so this is directly accessible from a Mac). Wherever you&#8217;re paying for a subscription service for Cloud storage, they will have their own access.</p>
<p>iCloud is Apple&#8217;s storage, I have a Mac, so it is an automatic option in my computer. Another way to access iCloud is by going to iCloud.com and signing in there. Anyone can have an iCloud account &#8211; have an AppleID? It&#8217;s the same log-in info for iCloud.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-760 aligncenter" src="http://dotandink.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Storage-Finding-hard-drive.png" alt="storage-finding-hard-drive" width="537" height="394" srcset="https://dotandink.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Storage-Finding-hard-drive.png 537w, https://dotandink.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Storage-Finding-hard-drive-300x220.png 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 537px) 100vw, 537px" /></p>
<p>These are the doors into different &#8220;rooms&#8221; of the <span style="color: #568997;"><em><strong>hard drive</strong></em></span> on my Mac. Again, AirDrop isn&#8217;t for storing files, it&#8217;s just a portal for transferring files between Apple products (iMac, MBP, iPad, and iPhones) &#8211; it&#8217;s still considered a door.</p>
<p>If you need a refresher on what those areas are for, you might want to check out my <a href="http://dotandink.com/finding-your-virtual-files/">other post</a>.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-761 aligncenter" src="http://dotandink.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Storage-Finding-external-hard-drive.png" alt="storage-finding-external-hard-drive" width="537" height="394" srcset="https://dotandink.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Storage-Finding-external-hard-drive.png 537w, https://dotandink.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Storage-Finding-external-hard-drive-300x220.png 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 537px) 100vw, 537px" /></p>
<p>This is the <span style="color: #568997;"><em><strong>external</strong></em></span> <span style="color: #568997;"><em><strong>hard drive</strong></em></span>. Here I have &#8220;opened the door&#8221; into the LaCie Documents room. And the right side column is the index of everything in this &#8220;room&#8221;. If you have two, three, or however many USB ports to have other external drives plugged in, they are just listed here. At the time of this screenshot, I only had one external drive plugged into my computer.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>When working on an external hard drive, it&#8217;s really important to eject the drive before unplugging it from the computer.</strong></em></p>
<p>Ejecting the drive is similar to looking at the doorway and making sure nothing is in the way. To not eject &amp; just unplug is to slam the door on whatever might be in the path. This can be no big deal (socks, etc.) &#8211; or it could be a really big deal (someones fingers could get slammed in the door). Similarly, to not eject is to risk &#8220;slamming a file in the door&#8221; &#8211; which could corrupt it. In order to eject an external hard drive, you have to close whatever documents you were working on, (and sometimes the programs you were using with those documents). Then eject, otherwise you&#8217;ll get an error stating the file is &#8220;in use&#8221; &#8211; this is the same idea as being in the door closing path.</p>
<p>The shared devices are connected by wi-fi. The visibility of these devices are set by each specific device. You don&#8217;t eject these, they just lose their wi-fi connection.</p>
<p>When both of my children were in the living room working on school, and their computers were connected to wi-fi, I could see them in the list of &#8220;Shared&#8221;. &lt;- This is why it is important to pay attention to your security &amp; privacy settings if you do much work on public wi-fi.</p>
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<p>The post <a href="https://dotandink.com/finding-your-virtual-files-part-2/">Finding Your Virtual Files (part 2)</a> appeared first on <a href="https://dotandink.com">Dot&amp;Ink Designs</a>.</p>
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		<title>Random &#8211; Not so Virtual</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2016 06:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>So, this is a random interjection into virtual organizing&#8230;.but, my justification: Shutterfly is one of the Cloud based storage options for photos...</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: left;">So, this is a random interjection into virtual organizing&#8230;.but, my justification: Shutterfly is one of the Cloud based storage options for photos I mentioned on <a href="http://dotandink.com/storage/">Day 11 | Storage</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">I want to share a wonderful <b><i><a style="color: #688413;" href="http://www.pjatr.com/t/SENISU9JRkxDR0pITEdHQ0dKRkxJRw">Shutterfly</a>*</i></b> (affiliate links throughout this post) deal with you.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><em><strong>Get a start on your Christmas list:</strong></em></p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: left;"><em>IF you are a <strong>new customer</strong>, you can get a <a href="http://www.gopjn.com/t/SENJR0lPS0dDR0pITEdHQ0dKRkxJRw">FREE calendar</a> until September 30, 2017! </em>(code: FREECALAFF)</li>
<li><strong>All Customers</strong> get a <a href="http://www.pjtra.com/t/SENJR01ISU1DR0pITEdHQ0dKRkxJRw">free 16&#215;20 print</a> until September 30th. (code: FREEPRINT)</li>
<li><strong>New customers </strong>get <a href="http://www.pjtra.com/t/SENJR01ISU1DR0pITEdHQ0dKRkxJRw">35% off your $50</a> order until September 30th. (code: 35OFF50)</li>
<li><strong>All Customers</strong> get <a href="http://www.pjtra.com/t/SENJR01ISU1DR0pITEdHQ0dKRkxJRw">25% off your order</a> until September 30th.  (code: 25OFF2017)</li>
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<p style="text-align: left;">For several years I scrapbooked 5&#215;7 calendars and then had them color photocopied as gifts &#8211; they were displayed on an easel, or hung with a clip. I&#8217;m so excited, Shutterfly now has 5&#215;7 Easel Calendars! The last five years I&#8217;ve ordered myself a calendar from <b><i><a style="color: #688413;" href="http://www.pjatr.com/t/SENISU9JRkxDR0pITEdHQ0dKRkxJRw">Shutterfly</a>.</i></b> <em>I use the free code, pay shipping &#8211; and I get 12 months of memories in print.</em> They&#8217;ve always been beautiful. The one time there was a white, unprinted line down the side of each photo. I called them, and they sent me a correctly printed calendar right away &#8211; free of charge, even though it had been free in the first place.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">I haven&#8217;t printed many photos for scrapbooking since moving to a digital camera, but the ones I have printed &#8211; from 4&#215;4 to 16&#215;20 &#8211; have been beautiful.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">I&#8217;ve printed a several digital scrapbooks, and <b><i><a style="color: #688413;" href="http://www.pjatr.com/t/SENISU9JRkxDR0pITEdHQ0dKRkxJRw">Shutterfly</a></i></b><em><strong>&#8216;s books are lovely</strong></em>. You will essentially have personalized full color, bound books. And their editor makes it all very customizable. <em>Side note:</em> I was actually contemplating not printing any more photos (haven&#8217;t printed any in 10 years) &#8211; just catching up with digital scrapbooks&#8230;but I&#8217;m thrilled my children prefer the &#8220;old&#8221; way of scrapbooking. <em>(I&#8217;m actually excited to have the excuse to get to play with all my paper &amp; supplies again :-D!) </em>So, while I&#8217;m going to stick to the not-so-virtual route of scrap books for my children, I am going to start working on a highlight book of each year. Not super in depth, but an overview.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">In case you don&#8217;t know, Shutterfly has several options under the categories of</p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: left;">Photo Books (8&#215;8 up to 12&#215;12, themed, seasonal, with several options);</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Cards &amp; Stationary (seasonal, blank, graduation, rubber stamps, personalized postage stamps, address labels, stickers, and many more ideas);</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Prints &amp; Posters (4&#215;4 up to 20&#215;30, collages &#8211; including various paper options);</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Calendars (Desk style, 5&#215;7 Easel, Poster, Magnet, Mouse Pad, 8.5&#215;11 and 12&#215;12 Wall Calendars)</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Personalized Gifts (memory game, playing cards, paperweights, ornaments, mugs, etched glass, pillows, blankets, iPhone cases, and many more options),</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Home Decor (canvas, metal, wood, acrylic, stockings, photo cubes, shower curtains, and many more ideas.).</li>
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<p style="text-align: left;">*I am an affiliate for <b><i><a href="http://www.pjatr.com/t/SENISU9JRkxDR0pITEdHQ0dKRkxJRw">Shutterfly</a></i></b>, meaning if someone places an order using my link they will pay me a commission for sharing their sale with you. Here are <a href="http://dotandink.com/affiliate-information/">more companies</a> I like and trust and am willing to share with you.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2016 06:49:16 +0000</pubDate>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yesterday I talked about <a href="http://dotandink.com/storage/">storage</a> &#8211; but what about when you are trying to find your virtual files in multiple locations, how do you find them on the computer, on an external hard drive, or cloud based?</p>
<p>What about when you have different files in different locations? It really comes down to making sure you know where you&#8217;re starting. It&#8217;s similar to getting directions &#8211; where are you? where do you need to go? which direction will you be coming from? The biggest thing, you want to be consistent, such as:</p>
<ul>
<li>all usable files I use on both computers = <strong>LaCie Documents</strong>, the name of my 1TB LaCie Rugged external hard drive;</li>
<li>back-ups on <strong>LaCie CloudBox</strong> &lt;- ideally; and</li>
<li>photo backups = <strong>LaCie Orange (photos)</strong>, the name of my 500GB LaCie Rugged external hard drive;</li>
</ul>
<p>Just to make sure we&#8217;re on the same page: All my screenshots are from my computers, which means I can only show you Mac versions. I can&#8217;t even begin to translate for Windows based machines (I haven&#8217;t used Windows since 2009, I think it was called Vista). Anything I say will be rooted in frustration of trying to help my parents with their storage &#8211; finding &#8211; etc. (they still have Microsoft computers/tablets)</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-615 aligncenter" src="http://dotandink.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Storage-Finding.png" alt="storage-finding" width="537" height="394" srcset="https://dotandink.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Storage-Finding.png 537w, https://dotandink.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Storage-Finding-300x220.png 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 537px) 100vw, 537px" /></p>
<h3><span style="color: #568997;"><em><strong>In the Section: Favorites</strong></em></span></h3>
<p>In the above photo you can see all three storage locations (hard drive, external hard drive, and Cloud based). The top left is a direct link into the <strong>iCloud Drive</strong> &#8211; when you&#8217;re logged in and tell your computer when to have access. If you use Office 365 or other similar cloud based programs, it will by default put your files &#8220;in the cloud&#8221;. Office 365 puts files into One Drive.</p>
<p><strong>AirDrop</strong> = form of transferring files between Apple products. It usually takes me less time to move the files with an external hard drive &#8211; or email them to myself.</p>
<p><strong>Desktop</strong> = the actual desktop of the computer I&#8217;m using at the time. When I take a screen shot they automatically go to the desktop. (This is NOT the same as the DESKTOP folder you can see on the LaCie Documents external hard drive.)</p>
<p><strong>Downloads</strong> = self-explanatory&#8230;. except, I have mine set so when the external hard drive is connected, my downloads actually go into the DOWNLOADS folder (to the right on the gray/white lines) on the LaCie Documents external hard drive.</p>
<p><strong>Pictures</strong> = again, self-explanatory&#8230;. except for the screen saver photos, they have to be located by the computer in the Pictures file, I don&#8217;t use this destination because I don&#8217;t use Mac&#8217;s Photos program. I choose to put my photos into the PICTURES folder on the LaCie Documents external hard drive. You can read more about what I do <a href="https://staging.dotandink.com/photo-journal/">here</a>.</p>
<p><strong>akeller</strong> = the hard drive of my computer, the &#8220;top&#8221; of the directory root. I don&#8217;t actually use this &#8211; it&#8217;s more of the computers internal technical stuff. I don&#8217;t go there.</p>
<p><strong>Applications</strong> = the programs on the computer&#8217;s hard drive.</p>
<h3><span style="color: #568997;"><em><strong>The next section is: Devices</strong></em></span></h3>
<p><strong>LaCie Documents</strong> = the name of my LaCie external hard drive. So, when I want to find a file on the external hard drive, I click there to start. Then I see the list on the right (on the gray/white lines). Since I could end up with the same list of folders on the hard drive under &#8220;akeller&#8221; &#8211; I renamed the ones on the hard drive with &#8220;on iMac&#8221; in front of each folder name. This way if I don&#8217;t have the external connected I realize it right away, BEFORE I try to use an old file or place a new file in the old location.</p>
<p>When I have the second external connected, it&#8217;s called LaCie Orange (Photos) &#8211; this tells me it&#8217;s the &#8220;cleaner&#8221; back up of my photos.</p>
<h3><span style="color: #568997;"><em><strong>The section is: </strong><strong>Shared</strong></em> </span></h3>
<p>This is everything connected to our wi-fi. You can see we have an Epson &amp; HP printer, they&#8217;re both wi-fi so they show up here. Also, you&#8217;ll see my delinquent LaCie-CloudBox attached.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2016 06:56:53 +0000</pubDate>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just like storage for tangible items, we have to have store our virtual files.</p>
<p>There are basically three places to store files:</p>
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<li>Your computer&#8217;s <strong>hard drive</strong></li>
<li>An <strong>external hard drive/s </strong>(external drive)</li>
<li>A <strong>Cloud</strong> based drive</li>
</ol>
<p>There may be others, but I don&#8217;t know anything about them.<br />
Your computer&#8217;s <strong>hard drive</strong> (typically the C drive, or on a Mac it uses your name) is the storage inside the computer &#8211; whether you have a desktop or laptop. This is NOT the same thing as the disc drive. <em>Disc drives read discs &amp; don&#8217;t seem to be standard with computers any longer. Now we pretty much download anything we need/want. It used to be the only way to get info into the computer, then it was just how we installed software, and now I think most people use them to play CDs/DVDs they&#8217;ve owned for a while.</em></p>
<p>Hard drives in the computer come in different sizes. I&#8217;m going to use Apple products for examples because they are the devices I know. Most current iPhones/iPads come in variations of 32 GB, 64 GB, 128GB, or 256GB &#8211; a computer&#8217;s hard drive may have as little as 256GB or as much as 1-3TB. The bigger the storage, the more it can hold &#8211; similar to square footage in your home.</p>
<p>Another option is to have less GBs available in your computer hard drive and get an <strong>external hard drive/s</strong> for storing things. (a flash or thumb drive = a mini external hard drive) An external hard drive is also handy when your computer hard drive gets too full because you can &#8220;add&#8221; extra storage by connecting an external hard drive. There are times when you can have the software programs you use on the computer on an external drive. I don&#8217;t choose to have my software on the external drive because I found it to be slower than just accessing the file and having the program run on the computer. (I have &#8220;old&#8221; computers, mid-2009 and mid-2010.)</p>
<p>I keep software on the iMac &amp; MBP hard drives and all files on an external drive. This way I can access the same files on both my iMac and my MacBook Pro. When I need to work somewhere other than at home &#8211; I take both my laptop and the external hard drive. Yes, it does mean I must have the program installed, updated, etc on both machines &#8211; but technology takes upkeep, again &#8211; just like your home.</p>
<p><strong><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-609 aligncenter" src="http://dotandink.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Storage-About.png" alt="storage-about" width="584" height="487" srcset="https://dotandink.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Storage-About.png 584w, https://dotandink.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Storage-About-300x250.png 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px" /><br />
</strong>The photo above is showing the storage on my iMac is 1 TB (999.35GB) and the storage on the external hard drive is also 1TB&#8230;.</p>
<p>You can also see I have over 600GB of photos on the external and only 246.76GB on the actual hard drive. This is because I have my whole photo library on my main external, some are on another external hard drive not connected at the time I took the screen shot, just some photos live on the computer (remember my multiple copies&#8230; :-D)</p>
<p><strong>Cloud</strong> based storage is storage you don&#8217;t tangibly carry &#8211; you sign in for access to your files; typically &#8220;paying&#8221; some kind of rent/fee. There is some concern over who actually owns the files when you upload them<em> (it&#8217;s super important to make sure you read all Terms &amp; Conditions, and decide for yourself if you can live with what the company who owns the cloud storage says they will do/not do with your files)</em>. It totally creeps me out to think of Google reading my email (Gmail) &#8211; so why would I put ALL of my photos and documents &#8220;up there&#8221;?! Also, I&#8217;m a big proponent of not having my &#8220;stuff&#8221; inaccessible when I don&#8217;t have reliable internet (traveling, when we&#8217;re at our family&#8217;s cabin).</p>
<blockquote><p><em><strong>I&#8217;d venture to say most people tend to live VERY dependent on electricity, instant connection, wi-fi connections, and cell service.</strong></em></p></blockquote>
<p>Since I still like paper files most of all (even if they are always a mess), I don&#8217;t want to be one more step removed by have them all in a &#8220;Cloud&#8221;. Here are a few examples of cloud storage:</p>
<ul>
<li>Amazon | owned by Amazon &#8211; document &amp; photo storage</li>
<li>DropBox &#8211; document &amp; photo storage</li>
<li>Google Drive | owned by Google &#8211; document &amp; photo storage</li>
<li>iCloud | owned by Apple &#8211; document &amp; photo storage</li>
<li>One Drive | owned by Microsoft &#8211; document, not sure about photo</li>
<li>Shutterfly &#8211; photo storage</li>
</ul>
<p>There are plenty of other options&#8230; again, these are just the ones I&#8217;ve heard of or have tried.</p>
<p>Cloud based storage must be a great option because lots &amp; lots of people use it&#8230;but, I live in Alaska. Apparently, our internet is not consistent (or fast) enough to make this be a good idea. Especially since a lot of my files are large graphic/image files. Text files are MUCH smaller and easier to access without too much hassle. I spent hours &#8211; days &#8211; over several weeks (seriously!) getting all my files into iCloud just to have endless problems with accessing my files. I ended up pulling them all back out of the Cloud so I wasn&#8217;t paying for storage I didn&#8217;t need. <em><strong>Such a royal pain &amp; SO many hours wasted! </strong></em></p>
<p>My solution to not having two sets of files and always having to remember what I worked on and save the newest version on both machines: get a portable, heavy-duty, designed for carrying around external hard drive (the LaCie Rugged &#8211; I have two, one is 500GB &amp; the other is 1TB). I just ALWAYS make sure to work off the files on the external drive. All I need is power (or laptop battery) to access my files &amp; work.</p>
<p>I use the 500GB LaCie Rugged for another set of photo backups. I keep the files on this hard drive to actually important photos &#8211; not EVERYTHING (the hard drive is 500GB &amp; look above, you&#8217;ll see my whole big photo mess is currently sitting at 600GB&#8230;). Also, I periodically put some really special photos on each machine, the external hard drive, possibly my phone (which backs up to iCloud), and Shutterfly. (again&#8230;remember, I have multiple copies because I stink at regular rotating backups)</p>
<p>I do have a 3TB LaCie CloudBox, my idea was a total flop&#8230;and I don&#8217;t like it at all, it takes f.o.r.e.v.e.r. to do anything. When I called tech support, the woman said the CloudBox was a &#8220;chatty Cathy&#8221; &#8211; it had to say &#8216;hi&#8217; to every aspect of the computer, modem, and wi-fi router in our house BEFORE accessing the files. My goal is to get it set up and try it for Time Machine backups and have it include the external drives in the backing up. It would give me another regular back-up. &#8230;but I haven&#8217;t taken the hours it&#8217;ll take for me to figure this out yet &#x1f60a;.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2016 15:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color: #568997;"><em><strong>Have you ever wanted to keep a file, but have another exactly like it?</strong> </em></span>Do you know the difference between Save or Save As?</p>
<p>You can easily duplicate files using File &#8211; Save As. When the location box opens, change the file name and/or change the location. The following are four different file names in a computer, but <em><strong>not</strong></em> when naming an online file. (we&#8217;ll get in to this in the second half of the month)</p>
<ul>
<li>dotandink</li>
<li>dot-and-ink</li>
<li>dot and ink</li>
<li>dot_and_ink</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-601 aligncenter" src="http://dotandink.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/File-Save-vs-Save-As.png" alt="file-save-vs-save-as" width="415" height="334" srcset="https://dotandink.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/File-Save-vs-Save-As.png 415w, https://dotandink.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/File-Save-vs-Save-As-300x241.png 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px" /><span style="color: #568997;">File</span><br />
<span style="color: #568997;"> &#8211; Save</span></strong> = saving the file you are working on with no changes to location or file name. <strong>When you save a file, you are saving the changes you just made to the original file. </strong>In the exact same place where you opened the file.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">In the photo above do you see both <strong>Save</strong> and <strong>Save As</strong> as options under <strong>File</strong>? If you click on<strong> Save As</strong>, you should get a similar box to below.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #568997;"><strong>File<br />
-Save As</strong></span> = this option allows the you to change the file name and/or the location of the file. It will leave the original, unedited version of the file named as-is, where-is, but ONLY IF you <strong>SAVE AS</strong> something/somewhere else.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright size-full wp-image-599" src="http://dotandink.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/File-Save-As.png" alt="file-save-as" width="829" height="843" srcset="https://dotandink.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/File-Save-As.png 829w, https://dotandink.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/File-Save-As-600x610.png 600w, https://dotandink.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/File-Save-As-295x300.png 295w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 829px) 100vw, 829px" /></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">You can see the file name is highlighted and you can see the location of the file. You can maneuver away from this folder into any of your folders. Do you see the Format: drop down? This is where you&#8217;d change the type of file.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><img alt="" loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-600 size-full" src="http://dotandink.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/File-Save-As-InDD.png" width="811" height="811" srcset="https://dotandink.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/File-Save-As-InDD.png 811w, https://dotandink.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/File-Save-As-InDD-300x300.png 300w, https://dotandink.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/File-Save-As-InDD-100x100.png 100w, https://dotandink.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/File-Save-As-InDD-600x600.png 600w, https://dotandink.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/File-Save-As-InDD-150x150.png 150w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 811px) 100vw, 811px" /></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">If you can&#8217;t save a file as another file type using <strong>File</strong> &#8211; <strong>Save As</strong> (see above), try exporting the file as another file type &#8211; depending on what the program you are using allows you to do. Below you can see the drop down options in InDesign when you are using <strong>File</strong> &#8211; <strong>Export</strong>.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright size-full wp-image-598" src="http://dotandink.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/File-Export-InDD.png" alt="file-export-indd" width="820" height="904" srcset="https://dotandink.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/File-Export-InDD.png 820w, https://dotandink.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/File-Export-InDD-600x661.png 600w, https://dotandink.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/File-Export-InDD-272x300.png 272w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px" /></p>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2016 10:07:43 +0000</pubDate>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: left;"><em><strong>A few major parts of organizing files &#8211; file names, file types, and storage</strong></em>. It can be horribly confusing if you don&#8217;t get how/where certain files come from.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #568997;">Some Common File Types</span></h2>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Could be Considered General Documents:</strong><br />
.doc or .docx (MSWord) |.pdf (Acrobat Reader) | .xls or .xlsx (Excel)<br />
<strong>Could be Considered Graphic Documents:</strong><br />
.ai (Adobe Illustrator) | .eps (Vector) | .indd (InDesign) | .jpeg or .jpg (photo) | .gif (capable of animation) | .png (capable of transparent background) | .tif or .tiff (can use as an image file format)<br />
<strong>Used for Presentation files:</strong><br />
.key (Keynote) | .ppt (PowerPoint)<br />
<strong>Not as Common, Creates Large Documents:</strong><br />
.psd (PhotoShop)</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">There are plenty more file types, these are just the types I&#8217;m familiar with and the programs they are created in.</p>
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<li style="text-align: left;">I do not know why MSWord files sometimes have .doc, .docx, or nothing as their extension.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">I also do not know why sometimes you see the program logo as an icon (PDF, MSWord, InDD, Excel) and other times it is a mini picture of the file (Numbers, Pages, Keynote, PowerPoint, Illustrator).</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">I believe .jpg, .JPG, and .png files are always mini pictures, and can universally be opened/placed with most programs.</li>
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<p>Another thing to notice, when looking at Finder, you&#8217;ll notice the date the file was last modified on the right. See the little &#8220;up&#8221; carrot before the line dividing between Name &amp; Date Modified? It tells you it is in alpha order from A-Z in the Name section. You can also order by Z-A or use the Date Modified by earliest or latest.</p>
<p>When you have a folder open you can order the files however is easiest for you to find your files. This can be changed anytime and often as you&#8217;d like.</p>
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<strong>I wish I was brave like a Thrower.</strong></h2>
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<p style="text-align: left;">Are you someone who easily throws paper? You look at it, read it, and either file it or throw it. I wish. My mom is like this &#8211; she&#8217;s able to decide after a quick glance if she&#8217;ll want it again.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><em><strong>I think it&#8217;s brave to throw papers away. </strong>You might need the information again. </em>I&#8217;m getting better, some information I wouldn&#8217;t be able to find very quickly so I may as well re-download it if I need it.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><em><strong>I&#8217;m a slow processor.</strong></em> I might read something thoroughly, then I&#8217;ll probably need to read it again. Then a day or two later I&#8217;ll still be thinking on it and need to read it again. I&#8217;m visual. I need to see something in writing to remember it. I don&#8217;t throw papers easily. I probably have 98% of all receipts for the last 5-7 years &#8211; all put away, organized in baggies by year.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">That said, virtual files (except your photos!) &#8211; I pitch easily. After all, if I found it once online, and I really care &#8211; I&#8217;ll be able to find it again.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">On digital photos and throwing them away&#8230;the reason I have over 40K, is because I&#8217;m afraid of losing them all. So, I&#8217;ve copied them a time or two and have them on a few different hard drives. Obviously, I need to spend an hour (or sixty) to delete the bad photos ruthlessly. I&#8217;m not there yet. :-)</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">I consider a Thrower a type of organization because if you throw it away, you&#8217;re still doing something with it. It isn&#8217;t one of a million pieces of paper you are looking at in piles.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><em>Side note:</em> There is a REALLY cool device you can use to quickly scan all your papers into documents on the computer. I really want one. It&#8217;s over $200&#8230;. I was skeptical on the ease of scanning paper into the computer until seeing it in use.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><em><strong>I&#8217;ll freely admit I&#8217;m a paper addict BUT the idea of &#8220;going paperless&#8221; is very enticing to me.</strong></em></p>
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		<title>Organization Type: Pro-Piler</title>
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<strong>&#8230; and I can be a Pro-Piler.</strong></h2>
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<p><img alt="" loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-579 size-full aligncenter" src="http://dotandink.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/real-life-pro-piles.jpg" width="486" height="600" srcset="https://dotandink.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/real-life-pro-piles.jpg 486w, https://dotandink.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/real-life-pro-piles-243x300.jpg 243w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">A Pro-Piler is short for Procrastinating Piler</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">You know, when you start to look at something, get distracted and set it down. Thinking, &#8220;I&#8217;ll come right back to &#8230;&#8221; &#8230; and then all of a sudden it&#8217;s the next day, or next week&#8230;or next month. Yes, procrastination at it&#8217;s finest.</p>
<p><em>As I said yesterday:</em></p>
<blockquote><p><em><strong> I&#8217;m a vertical filer/piler on horizontal surfaces. </strong></em></p></blockquote>
<p>Here ia another pile and one of two wooden crates of paperwork in the sort, file, not-urgent-at-all piles. (except for the book report draft &amp; phone bill on the top layer)</p>
<p>These piles have become my &#8220;Procrastinating Piler&#8221; piles. Regardless of how this looks, I can usually find any piece of real paper I need rather quickly. Even the ones in my procrastinating filing piles&#8230; Despite the look of the mess it is actually sorted. The vertical piling in the forefront is the more urgent. The folders in the wooden crate are pre-filed. They are papers needing to get filed into the file cabinet. I gave myself a two-inch space for &#8220;to-be-filed&#8221;&#8230;supposedly when it was full it was time to file. Obviously, this tactic has not worked for me.</p>
<p>When it comes to virtual files, I can&#8217;t do &#8220;piled&#8221;. There is an elusiveness of virtual files &#8211; because they aren&#8217;t tangible, I need them in their place &#8211; not dumped &#8211; or I can&#8217;t find them.</p>
<p>There are two places where Procrastinating Piled Virtual Files &#8220;dumping&#8221; happens in my virtual files:</p>
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<li>my &#8220;Download&#8221; folder. I have a ridiculous mess in my download folder. The procrastinating comes in when I don&#8217;t get the files moved into their correct folders very quickly. And this is the result of how I store my files (coming up later).</li>
<li>and sometimes the &#8220;Newest Nikon download&#8221; &#8211; but these are still in date order. It&#8217;s more of a holding space</li>
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<p>There is a built-in dump in your computer &#8211; you know how everything goes into the &#8220;Documents&#8221; folder? Why?!</p>
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