Help! How do You Organize Your Documents?

Summary

The author is seeking advice on organizing writing documents, managing files across various platforms, and establishing a workflow for submissions.

Abstract

The author expresses a need for an organizational overhaul due to an overwhelming amount of writing work spread across different publishing platforms, writing tools, and storage locations, including both computer and cloud files. With a growing pile of unpublished material and essays from the past two decades, the author has attempted to use tools like Scrivener to manage submissions but found it ineffective. The author is reaching out to the community for help with file organization, titling, and establishing a systematic approach to managing writing projects and submissions.

Opinions

The author acknowledges the challenge of organizing documents due to the use of multiple writing tools and storage solutions.
There is an admission of past attempts to organize using Scrivener that did not succeed.
The author values community input on organizing Medium stories, folder systems, file naming conventions, and submission workflows.
The author suggests a sense of urgency in needing a better organizational system to keep up with the pace of writing and publishing.
There is an interest in exploring external resources, as indicated by the provided links to articles on organization in data science and submissions guidelines for Midge Mag.

Help! How do You Organize Your Documents?

Between the different publishing platforms, the different writing tools, and files on my computer and the cloud, I need a major organizational overhaul!

As I delve deeper and deeper into writing and publishing my working ideas are piling up faster than I can write them, and I have loads of unpublished material and half-formed essays from the last 20 years.

I have folders spread across my computer. I use both Word and Scrivener. I actually tried to set up a workflow for submissions directly IN a Scrivener doc once. It did not pan out. I need your help!

Do you keep your Medium stories on your computer as well? Do you have a folder system you love? How do you title your files so you can easily navigate to them? Do you have an organizational system or workflow for submissions?

Help! How do You Organize Your Documents?

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