Am I the Only One....

[kresta]

who is getting a little anal about tracking my Sweet Rewards points. Not that I don't trust Meg or anything, I just kept getting confused on what I had done and what hadn't, and if it hadn't been updated in a couple days, I was chancing doing a challenge twice. Maybe it's just my pea brain!

But this month I'm trying the excel sheet for my own tracking, just to see where I am on my own. I list the challenges, the dates I completed and posted, the # of points earned, and what kit I used (just for reference). I even hyperlinked the challenge names to the challenge in the forum, so I can go there quick right from my spreadsheet.

Here's what it looks like:
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y80/Kresta/May-Sweet-Rewards-Challenge.jpg

I know I'm looking like a super-geek right about now, but it really hasn't taken much time and I feel more organized.

So spill it, what do you do to stay organized? With Sweet Rewards or even w/ CT stuff?

I'm not the only one, right?

[junebug]

I just bought a really cute spiral note book to keep track of my LO's for the challenges and also for my CT LO's. Being on 3 CT's and having to post those LO's to 2 or 3 different galleries plus doing all the challenges makes my head spin. But in a good way! So i feel a little bit more organzied with my trusty notebook on my desk. So you're not the only one who likes to keep things straight.

[LeeAndra]

I'm way too artsy-fartsy to use an Excel sheet for anything. :p

I download everything to my laptop HD after purchasing/getting it for CT. This is also so I can ACDSee tag my new stuff before it gets moved over into its appropriate folder(s) on my EHDs. I have created a folder for each CT I belong to, and all the new stuff gets copied and put in the designated folder. I know that I still need to use it if it's in that folder, so once I use it, I delete it. I keep the original copy outside the CT folders until I tag and move it to my EHDs. Eventually, my new stuff gets completely deleted from my laptop HD to make room for even NEWER stuff. :)

I don't have an official list of how many layouts I've done per month for my CTs. I just keep track in my head and by looking at my gallery. I'm hardcore like that, yo.

[hhleung]

That's a great idea, using the Excel worksheet. I should do something like that, too....if I can ever get my act together enough to even do some of the challenges. I have ideas on what I'm going to do but I just can't seem to get around to it....

A worksheet could also help me keep track of which kits came out which week so that I would know what to use to get the extra point...

Helen

[ColleenSwerb]

I use a word document to keep track. When I finish a challenge it gets a blue smiley face, and if I used a new release it gets a blue asterick. I keep a total up at the top, and all the way down at the bottom I keep a list of challenges I didn't get a chance to do, but really want to (which gets longer and each month, but ehatever, lol). I keep it on my flash drive, which goes everywhere I go, so I can update when I need to.

To keep track of everything else, I have a notebook that I keep in my purse. Right now I just put down every lo I make in it (with it's credits and where it was posted, which is the whole purpose for my little notebook), but I think next year I'm going to sort them by each CT. Just cuz it might be a teeny bit easier. Although most of my designers have threads in their forums to post layouts and links to, which def helps me remember what I've done.

[scrapperjade]

Haha!! No your not alone! I have a Excel spreadsheet that looks very similar! I was putting a checkmark beside the complete ones, along with the number of points earned for that challenge. Didn't think to add a "kit used" column though! Thanks, :)!!

[Tracyfish]

I'm so not that organized! Every week I start a new list that sits in front of me at my desk. I list all my CTs and any new kits they come out with. I also write down any challenges that I want to do that week.

Then I have another list that has all my points for challenges completed so I can reference that if I need to to check my points.

[mrs_jb]

I need to do this!!! I am so scattebrained with everything right now and that is so not me! I need a system! LOL

[jaylensmom]

I'm not that organized...I have handwritten lists everywhere but I think I may adapt your spreadsheet...It would save me a lot of time trying to figure which layouts I actually did and didn't do...I hate to admit that last month I did a challenge twice...

[chloe]

I'm a super-geek too, then, because I have an excel sheet like that for all the challenges of the month (SSD + other sites)!

[scrapmonkey]

I actually have been keeping track of the Challenges and points in a Composition book (decorated using Bree's comp book templates). I do it that way because I use 3 different computers (2 at home and one at work), and I want to see the challenges some time when I have a few spare moments because I can brainstorm on ideas and sketches. I really only keep track of the SSD and DigiDares, unless there's something special at another site (like when Scrap Artist had their birthday celebration). I put a check if I complete a challenge and a plus if I use a new product right next to the left of the challenge name, and then to the right I give a description of the challenge. I also keep a list each month of the LO's I completed and why I completed them (which challenge or occasion or if there was no reason except my own desire to create). I don't keep track for any other reason really than my own sanity... :blink:

[marnel]

you know I'm bad b/c I don't keep track of anything like this :unsure: and for CT's I guess I just have a great memory :p

[nesser1981]

I just keep a note pad document that says sweet rewards and after I do a challenge, I just add it to my list. :)

[juliemarie]

I just bookmark the challenges I haven't done yet, and delete the bookmark as I do them.

[Valgal]

Ha ha! And why was I thinking I'm the only geek that does this???? I should know by now the company that I keep ;)

I keep mine on a Word doc as well, with hyperlinks to each challenge. After I complete the challenge I strike through the text and note how many points I earned after it in bold red. +1 or +2

At the bottom of the list I keep my running total, as long as a wish list of products I want to use my coupon towards :)

[Sarah8914]

Oh I love you guys!

I keep it all in my brain, but I like these ideas much better!

[Stacey42]

I have an Excel doc as well. I add the challenges to it and then have a column for the layout name or date I complete the challenge and another column to mark if I use a new product to get the extra point.

I print mine out and write on it more often than I actually enter things into Excel though.

For my CT stuff I unzip those files into a CT stuff file, once I have used it I move it to where ever it belongs in my scrapbook stuff

[kresta]

Oh I love hearing how everyone does it their own way! :)

Actually, I'm more organized for these challenges than I am for my CTs. But, with my CTs, I'm always checking the CT boards, so I keep up with it all that way. Right before NSD, when every designer I CT for was putting out 3,192 new items, I had to jot down a list. But in general it's just in my head and on the CT board.

[tracey]

Right before NSD, when every designer I CT for was putting out 3,192 new items, I had to jot down a list.

HaHa Kresta...3,192 new items!..... I still have a gazillion sticky notes everywhere from last weeks releases!

[pbumbaca]

Nope, I've been doing an excel sheet every month for a few months after I did a challenge more than once twice! LOL!

[meems]

wow, you gals are hard core.

when I was doing the challenges my way of keeping track was to obsessively check the tracker and then mentally add in what i remembered doing but wasn't on the tracker yet. I also kept checking the list of challenges. Now I see that this wasn't the most efficient way . . .:p

for CTs, i check the CT forums and let that nagging feeling that I'm not doing something remind me. sometimes I will put it on my task list in whatever-the-name-of-the-calendar-app for Thunderbird is.

[kscwgirl]

I keep track in a text file on my desktop that I also keep credits in. I delete them off my list once they are on the tracker. Although, really, I only did that in February when I had to get every.single.point. Now.. ehh. LOL

[scrappychic]

I leave it up to Meg for Sweet Rewards.

For CT stuff - not sure but that's the one thing I actually can remember. I'm surprising myself since I'm on 5 CTs. Two of them are very laid back though, no minimums, just use what you d/l, which is just perfect for me. Everyone's really cool and they don't keep tabs.