Mac and the art of being a neat-freak.

Switching to mac has had a a really curious effect upon me. That is, I am much more 'neat' and 'organized' in terms of how I handle my digital work. Everything must be in it's place. No more cluttering the desktop with images. If I don't need it, I delete it. If I need it, I save it on an external disk and then delete it. My folder file names have grown to become descriptive scentences. Everything must be organized, and at the end of the day- it all needs to come off my hard disk to be permanently stored on external medium.

It's also meant that in any of my down time, (especially the evenings) I have taken to perusing over my old work. Cataloging, organizing. I have alot of great old stuff that I have forgotten about that I want to put together. Some day I might want to make a book and it's important to keep the old stuff.

Mac and the heavy integration of all the software helps to make organizing a bit easyier. iPhoto handles the jpegs, (fun snaps, behind the scenes stuff) Adobe lightroom handles the Raw files. I'm thinking about switching to lightroom, but it's expensive and at the moment, lightroom is free. That's incentive. We would hope metadate would be universal, but as yet - it's not. But thats fine. For now I need to figure out a system I can work with. Something I can live with. And go on from there.