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Offline Rasputin

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How do you store your instructions
« on: February 21, 2009, 17:12:54 »
Ok i am taking on a new project and it has to do with organizing my paper work . I right now have all my Instructions and catalogs  in a large plastic box and it just does not work . I am looking for ideas as to what is a way of organizing them all including the posters . The one way i thought was to get a plastic box that has the ridges in the sides ( if there is such a thing ) that allows for legal files w/tabs and i can do it by # or theme . Well before i begin and learn the hard way i would like to hear or see what others have done .
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Re: How do you store your instructions
« Reply #1 on: February 21, 2009, 17:24:50 »
A noble undertaking Rasputin!

I use a hanging file system like you are talking about, tabbed with a series of set #'s (3000,4000, etc.) then individual folders to break it down further to specific sets or groups depending on quantity. If I get too many in a series I will break a tab down further (3000, 3500,4000), I don't collect posters or oversize material (thank goodness!)  0)

I am interested to hear how other people deal with this.



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Re: How do you store your instructions
« Reply #2 on: February 21, 2009, 17:42:05 »
I scan every thing in the computer.
It is easy to look.
And easy tho organize
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Re: How do you store your instructions
« Reply #3 on: February 21, 2009, 17:45:13 »
gepetto how about a picture , sounds like a system i am interested in .

peetje , yes scanning is the easiest but then i would still hang on to the paper work . i still have all of my playmobil boxes also  8}
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Re: How do you store your instructions
« Reply #4 on: February 21, 2009, 17:52:47 »
Quote from: Rasputin on February 21, 2009, 17:45:13
gepetto how about a picture , sounds like a system i am interested in .

peetje , yes scanning is the easiest but then i would still hang on to the paper work . i still have all of my playmobil boxes also  8}

I still have all of the boxes for the ones I got MIB too, Ras! I would like to invest in a heavy duty 4 drawer filing cabinet to use for filing my important information, Playmobil that is, but money always seems to go to the PM collection first  :toot:!
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Re: How do you store your instructions
« Reply #5 on: February 21, 2009, 20:23:05 »
I keep my instruction in files as you do Gepetto in a small filing cabinet and also the old catalogues.
I do not keep the boxes as this would take up to much room.
Last week we were in Malta and purchased a lot of Playmobil at the fun park shop.
To get it home we took it out of the boxes and placed it in plastic bags and marked on the numbers.
If we had tried to bring the boxes back I do not think they would have allowed us on the plane or charged us a lot of money. As it was we had a full suitcase of Playmobil and did not have to pay for extra baggage.
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Re: How do you store your instructions
« Reply #6 on: February 22, 2009, 08:06:03 »
I always scan my plans and then file them away in a clear sheatprotectors and then put them in ring binders in numerical order.
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Re: How do you store your instructions
« Reply #7 on: February 22, 2009, 10:13:16 »
Instructions stay within the boxes or bags of the set (bags in case I do not have the box anymore).
Reason is to keep the set complete (including the instruction) and in case I want to play with the set and setup the content (especially complex building sets) I have the instruction right handy with the set itself. -- So with this no need for me to find a solution organising the paperwork.

For "organising" the instructions I also use the computer: I scan them into one PDF document each single instruction so I can look up items when I'm at the computer (what is quite often ... being at the computer, not looking up :-[).
The PDF documents are names with the set number and the ordering number of the instruction itself, e.g. 3068 - 30892100-pdf. They are all located in one directory for easy access.
Additionally I have setup my local copy of my collection HTML-page from my homepage in that way, that when clicking on the instruction symbol the PDF document will be opened directly within a browser window; most times this is faster than navigating to the instructions folder.
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Offline Gustavo

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Re: How do you store your instructions
« Reply #8 on: February 23, 2009, 02:21:40 »
Well, I'm owner of one *very* small collection, but ...
(who knows I can give an idea ;D )


Take a look at the attachments ...

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Re: How do you store your instructions
« Reply #9 on: February 23, 2009, 02:26:12 »
(Files are exactly the same size of pictures
and of small instructions, as well as medium instructions as they come in boxes ...)


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