I didn't get an answer before -- maybe because I just used the "quote" function and it seemed to bury my responses...so here goes again:
Sorry! You're right - I didn't see the questions inside the quote.
Your choices are:
1. Only store under the ~Resell Rights folder.
If you do that, then part of your policy should be to always look inside the ~Resell Rights folder when you're searching inside a topic for things that might be useful to you for reference/education
My question: This would seem to make finding educational stuff near impossible!
Not really. You just have to be disciplined to look inside the ~Resell Rights folder each time. This is the approach I take.
2. Store it in both places.
In that case, you could extract the product and store it outside the ~Resell Rights folder, but inside the ~Resell Rights folder you would store the whole package (product + website + anything else).
My question: This could really use up disk space, but would be the best for finding educational stuff (I think). Wouldn't you then just keep the origianl (unzipped) package inside the Resell RIghts folder?
Yes it would - but unless you are duplicating large media files (videos or audios), that's not normally a problem.
But if that concerns you, here's Option 3:
Store a .txt file in the main folder with the same names as the product, and put a brief description/assessment of the product inside the file. Perhaps append "-RR" at the end of the file name to remind you that it refers to a resell rights product.
(was that tilde there for a reason?)
Yes.To keep the folder at the top of the list of folders when viewed alphabetically. When you start creating your own folders within the IM Index folders, this makes it much easier to go straight to the Resell Rights material.
GENERAL COMMENT
Here's my
Master Strategy....
Be Very Selective!
When you suggest that taking copies of the products out of the RR material and storing them separately is going to consume a lot of disc space, I suspect you are not being discriminating enough.
Unless most of the products you are talking about ARE videos and audios, the real limitation isn't going to be disc space but your time to read and absorb all that material.
The two keys to good content management are:
1. A good organizational system (the IM Index Mind Map in this case)
2. Effective content management processes: and probably the key process is ensuring you only manage what is necessary and delete (or archive) the rest.
Making the judgement about what is 'necessary' can be hard if you are always thinking "this might be useful someday" (I know - I've been there!). But if you have a clear plan for your ativities, that judgement becomes MUCH easier.
... and THAT is one of the reasons I am developing the IM Project Planning Mentor!
I hope that helps.
Alex
