The Watercooler : How do you alphabetize your things?

How do you alphabetize your things?

Say for your discs. Movies and music.
Or books or anything else that is a hard copy.

Do you do it old school not recognizing if it starts with "The" or is the T of "The" what you use to start with?

For example.
If you have The Sting and Superman movies would you put them in order of The Sting and then Superman, as I do?
Or Superman before The Sting since T follows S in the alphabet?

Re: How do you alphabetize your things?

Never with "the" in the T section. I'm not a barbarian.

Re: How do you alphabetize your things?

My things are all over the place in utter chaos, and yet I know where to find what I want.

Re: How do you alphabetize your things?

Most people like you know exactly where everything is. This baffles a
super organized person like me. That would drive me sane!



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Re: How do you alphabetize your things?

It's only when I tidy things up that I can't find them, so I resist that temptation!

Re: How do you alphabetize your things?

Fair enough, carry on.



😺 Schrodinger's Cat walks into a bar, and doesn't. 🤨 Let's go, Brandon! 🤨 Try that in a small town.

Re: How do you alphabetize your things?

I ignore the word"The" in titles. Therefore, my order would be Sting and then Superman, just like yours.



😺 Schrodinger's Cat walks into a bar, and doesn't. 🤨 Let's go, Brandon! 🤨 Try that in a small town.

Re: How do you alphabetize your things?

Yup.
That is the way to do it my man!

Re: How do you alphabetize your things?



😺 Schrodinger's Cat walks into a bar, and doesn't. 🤨 Let's go, Brandon! 🤨 Try that in a small town.

Re: How do you alphabetize your things?

I never mis-file anything. It's all alphbetical!

Re: How do you alphabetize your things?

CDs sorted by genre or artist
DVDs not sorted at all
Videocassettes not sorted
LPs and cassettes not sorted

I'm never in a hurry to find anything and enjoy the hunt.

Re: How do you alphabetize your things?

I don't alphabetize my physical media

I group some things according to most valuable or most favored / most accessed

Other stuff is grouped by genre or decade…and the rest goes wherever it fits…lol

Stuff I keep on hard drives gets alphabetized automatically according to file names, but I usually know where to access them easily or just search a specific title and it pulls up instantly.

Are you okay?

Re: How do you alphabetize your things?

Elder futhark.

Re: How do you alphabetize your things?

I don't. It takes too much time.
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