Oh man, I have fic everywhere. I have fic in LJ memories (not organized in any way), on Delicious (organized with tags and tag bundles), on my hard drive (organized by fandom, with the story filename consisting of the author's name followed by the title), and now in Calibre for my e-book reader. I'm trying to consolidate it all now.
Delicious is fantastic for the ability to combine tags to narrow a search. I can't tell you how many times I was able to track something down for a storyfinders comm using nothing but tag combinations. If you want to see my tagging system, my Delicious account is here (http://delicious.com/the_other_sandy). The bad thing about Delicious is that it's just a bookmarking system; it doesn't archive the fic. If someone moves or deletes their fic, you're left with a dead link and no fic. That's why I'm currently working on saving fic I want to keep onto my hard drive and fic I want to read onto my e-book reader. I suspect that eventually every story I want to keep will be saved in both places. I never save fic I don't like.
I use pretty much the same tags in Calibre as I do on Delicious, both to organize the fics in Calibre and because my Sony Reader retains those tags as "collections" when I load the stories, so I can still search by tags (only one at a time though; you can't combine them like you can on Delicious). The only difference is that I use prefixes on my tags in Calibre so that they group together like my tag bundles on Delicious. Genres get a G prefix (G: AU, G: hurt/comfort, etc.), pairings get a P (P: McShep, P: Jack/Ianto, etc.), series get an S, and word count gets WC (I use the same word count groupings from Delicious, which I shamelessly stole from someone else while trolling for fic one day).
Don't know how much of this is helpful, but maybe it'll give you an idea for your own system.
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Date: 2010-06-24 11:35 pm (UTC)Delicious is fantastic for the ability to combine tags to narrow a search. I can't tell you how many times I was able to track something down for a storyfinders comm using nothing but tag combinations. If you want to see my tagging system, my Delicious account is here (http://delicious.com/the_other_sandy). The bad thing about Delicious is that it's just a bookmarking system; it doesn't archive the fic. If someone moves or deletes their fic, you're left with a dead link and no fic. That's why I'm currently working on saving fic I want to keep onto my hard drive and fic I want to read onto my e-book reader. I suspect that eventually every story I want to keep will be saved in both places. I never save fic I don't like.
I use pretty much the same tags in Calibre as I do on Delicious, both to organize the fics in Calibre and because my Sony Reader retains those tags as "collections" when I load the stories, so I can still search by tags (only one at a time though; you can't combine them like you can on Delicious). The only difference is that I use prefixes on my tags in Calibre so that they group together like my tag bundles on Delicious. Genres get a G prefix (G: AU, G: hurt/comfort, etc.), pairings get a P (P: McShep, P: Jack/Ianto, etc.), series get an S, and word count gets WC (I use the same word count groupings from Delicious, which I shamelessly stole from someone else while trolling for fic one day).
Don't know how much of this is helpful, but maybe it'll give you an idea for your own system.