| Sara ( @ 2008-06-11 21:30:00 |
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Organized people, unite (and pleeeese do my homework)
In the last year I've been working so much it's unbelievable, which is great, because things are so much better than I expected (except when it's time to pay taxes, of course)
But this has come with brand new problems, as well.
First of all, the amount of data.
In 2007 I've taken more pictures than from 2001 to 2006.
And since I've started shooting raw the amount of data I produce has become gargantuesque.
I'd use remote archives if internet connection wasn't this lame most of the time.
Then come the archives.
I used to have an archive for photos, in which every shooting would be religiously archived with a sequence of numbers and a name (eg 0806_11_keyword).
In each folder, a folder with nef files and a folder with jpegs.
Then I had an archive folder with other kind of gigs (catalogues, posters, brochures, sites) divided by client.
In the last year the two have intermingled like hell and sometimes I don't know where to put what.
then, mail.
switching from pop to imap saved my life when I started working from home, yet I cannot keep all the emails on the server because of how many idiots keep mailing me huge attatchments instead of uploading them somewhere and mailing just the link.
A couple of huge projects I'm working on at the moments are based on frequent exchange of informations with low-tech people who totally ignore how useful proper use of the subject field would be: we could avoid having subject lines such as re:re:re:re:re:re:re:re:re:re:re:re: subject A when we are actually talking about subject B
The best thing for me would be to archive emails into the project folder, but eml files are a pain in the arse to open and copying-pasting a txt file for each email is way too time consuming and dumb for my taste.
Also, working on 2 different computers (I travel a lot and my laptop has been overabused lately) makes things nasty in weeks when everything is an emergency and I don't have the time to properly backup every day.
So it often happens that the file I need is everywhere else and not immediately accessible
God, I need an assistant, a better workflow, more discipline or some miracle software to manage my stuff.
I'd start by reading GTD again, if I actually had time to read.