What do y'all use (besides the tattered paper list method) to keep track of your patterns?
Nothing whatever. I own several thousand books, over a thousand of which are on costuming; hundreds of fashion magazines; and hundreds of patterns. I started out with my books on the shelves in order by author's last name, and also categorized roughly by type (costuming, literature/fiction, strictly work-related (things like style manuals, books on book design, etc.) and other nonfiction. The large stacks on the floors in most rooms which have overspilled the shelves, are still categorized by content--I have different types of books in different rooms of my house, with BTW the cookbooks of all eras in the kitchen. But the author's name organization scheme has gone by the wayside there, since that's too hard to maintain in vertical stacking.
I used to have all my patterns-in envelopes on boxes organized by era, then by reproduction versus original. I also used to have the fashion and pattern magazines organized by run of magazine, but now they're just in stacks.
Not being a neat person by any means, I'd far rather buy the occasional duplicate than spend hours and hours entering all that stuff into a computer program. I'm pretty good at remembering titles and authors, and sort of good at remembering where I saw something last.
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