I especially do this when it comes to running errands. ...
I also save up my tasks at work -- ...
I also write my shopping list according to where food is in the store (from front to back) and load it up to be checked out from heaviest to lightest (beverages in plastic containers, meat, frozen and cold items, cans and heavier boxes, lighter boxes, produce, bread) so the heaviest ones will go back in the cart on the bottom.
I'm always surprised when I find out other people don't think or operate this way.
same. same. same. all errands together if I can. I load claims into our test environments for each of our testing phases/projects for each release. And I do my best to only have to log in to the claims loading interface once... save all the files to load at one time. I also do my grocery list by aisle in the grocery store - or would prefer it done that way if I were the one grocery shopping. (Hubby usually does this chore and it makes no difference to him how the list is made, so I don't bother organizing it if he's going)
I've never thought to do it by weight of the items in the cart, but I do try to group the cold things together in the scanning/bagging step so that when we put things away we do that part efficiently.
I basically batch process two things.
First is soup. I will cook all day and make a bunch of soups and fill up my freezer.
Second, when a kit has a ton of psd files and no tiff alternatives (psd don’t have preview thumbnails on a pc), I have set up an action to save as tiff and will run a whole batch in a few seconds. EZPZ
I also batch process some scrapping things like this. I have PSE Elements+ or something... a plug in I paid $12 for, for elements to be able to do some things Photoshop can do - like batch processing and creating scripts. I usually use this for shadowing a bunch of elements to save for app scrapping. I will load up a bunch of elements in my document, shadow them all, then run the script to save each PNG layer individually with a new name (usually "layername-wshdw"). I also used this process a few years ago when I had a ton of PSD files and I made the decision to switch to TIFF. converted all psd's to TIFF. worked great!
I guess I batch process some scrapping tasks. Here are my steps.
- I pull large groups of photos from my phone and camera at the same time. I arrange them into monthly or weekly folders (depending which I've chosen to go with that year) and rename them all.
- When I'm ready to tackle the next level of organization I purge the bad ones, copy the best ones into my To Be Scrapped folders, and move the finished folder into the correct yearly picture folder.
- During session 3 I decide which photos from the week or month will go on PL pages and which will get their own layouts. I store them in corresponding folders. (So I end up with a To Be Scrapped folder that shows the album I'm working on, like July to December 2018. Within that I'll have 1 folder for each event or page I plan to scrap. Some of the folders will be labeled with Project Life weeks and others for events like Lauren's Birthday.) If I know which kit I plan to use for a given page, I will also put a copy of the kit preview in the folder.
- Fourth step is to get journaling organized. I take notes on my phone throughout the year and can export those to my computer as one huge document. So then I separate everything out into a zillion word documents that correspond to the pages and PL spreads I've just planned. The journaling documents get stored in the folders with the photos.
And that's it. At that point I'm ready to start scrapping the album. My projects are chronological, like the July to December 2018 book I mentioned earlier. But within that album I work on whichever folder of photos happens to inspire me at the moment or works for a challenge or CT kit.
I'm going to have to figure out how to incorporate some of this to my own tasks! currently, dropbox auto names all my images when it imports from phone to the cloud. but google photos and amazon prime don't. I know i have duplicates in some cases. I also never did a delete of bad or otherwise pointless photos... so that's part of my goals for 2020, cleaning all this up. no more dups, and no more photos i know I am unlikely to use (because i have 30 of the same thing, or something)
I also did some of the batch processing for the DYD album this year that
@bestcee mentioned for MOC pages. I am using the SwL template set, and I renamed each day based on the moments I was pretty sure I was going to include in my DYD album. as the month went on, I added the photos into the templates. I also went in to each page and updated the journaling blocks and titles to the fonts I chose for the album (consistency!)... some of them even have some papers added. I put some journaling notes in my OneNote for the album. I didn't finish the DYD album, but I am pretty confident that when I work on those pages throughout the year, they will come together fairly quickly.
Generally speaking, I don't batch process my scrapping... BUT, when I am doing an album, i definitely think it helps bring it together more cohesively. Because I notice when I'm really into a certain thing, it will carry over. For instance, right now I'm totally loving all the SwL cutouts I grabbed during the Designer Surprises sale, and I've used them on several pages since. So if I were doing an album, many of the pages would probably have the same feel because I'm really liking it right now. When i get around to doing the weeks of my PL, I do that in batch mode, too... step one, make the weekly photo sets, step two, choosing the template that will hold that number of photos. step 3, plopping them into a template, and so on. Each of those steps I would do for each page before moving on to the next step.
This is another thing Aaron wrote about on the TLP blog at one point or another... batch processing his project life project... getting caught up in his album. Another term I use for this is "power scrapping".
okay. enough novel writing from me
