(Part 2) Reddit mentions: The best file folders & accessories

As my group's current DM, I'm a little too excited for the chance to be a PC when someone in my group starts up CoS and rotating with my campaign. Everything I need in one spot, ready for session 0. A small part of me hopes he dies so I can buy a [DECEASED] stamp before he gets filed.

• Idea: /u/SSkorkowsky video on Youtube about player folders: https://youtu.be/qFC4KIS07ws
  
• Folder: Smead Fastener Folder: https://www.amazon.com/Smead-Fastener-Fasteners-Reinforced-14837/dp/B00006IF2C/
  
• Label: Avery 5202
  
• Character Sheet: from /u/Emmetation https://www.reddit.com/r/dndnext/comments/7ubk9l/class_character_sheets_complete_bundle_plus/
  
• Inventory Sheet: https://jonbupp.wordpress.com/2017/04/27/inventory-sheets/
  
• NPC sheet: I made this
  
  

Here's mine.

I got a set of plastic document folders like these on Amazon. 3-hole punched the manuals, and those are secured with the brass tabs. Loose paper in the front cover's pocket. Made some self-adhesive labels with the game's logo for the front of each folder. Cheap, basically indestructible, and all my experts can pick their favorite color. Somebody absconded with the blue one so they could study up.

Here's some things outside of the obvious JJDIDTIEBUCKLE stuff that will make your life a little easier.

• Bring erasable black pens for essay writing.
  
  
• Bring a pair of cheap black walmart flip-flops. You wont get issued shower shoes for a few days, and the walmart ones are better anyway.
  
  
• Sharpie Magnum. Buy two, label both, one for you to mark your t-shirts and one to loan out to all the candidates jealous of your big ass marker.
  
  
• At least in my platoon, the company letter stencils were always in short supply and falling apart because they were made of manila folders. Bring your orders in a plastic folder like this if you can find one. Once you are done with in-processing you can use it to make your own indestructible shirt stencil (you will need a small pair of scissors). Put your name on it so that you get it back when you loan it out.
  
  
• Whatever cell phone you have, make sure you know how to turn it all the way off (not just sleep or standby). That way when you get it back on libo it will not be dead.
  
  
• Assuming you are flying there use a backpack for your carry-on. It will be a lot better than a suitcase or duffel bag when you are on libo.
  
  
• If/when you end up in a billet, delegate. If you are platoon sergeant, task your squad leaders and supervise. Make corrections and adjustments, but don't try to manage everything yourself. It is a lot easier to manage 3 squads than it is to manage 30-40 individuals. Similarly, as a squad leader task your fireteams.

These and these are my go-to's. I can get 20-30 sprays out of each of these before the paint cakes up too chick to cut out. They're worth the money and 278% better than Acetate. That's a true statistic that I did not just make up off the top of my head.

I use outlook to keep appointments together, but for notes I have a pretty odd system that does work for me. Fair warning, I'm hyper-organized about this type of thing. I'm a big tech nerd but I just can't stay organized keeping meeting notes electronically.

For every sit down meeting I use a piece of card stock. Weird I know, but the tangibility of it helps me. I make sure to put the date/customer on the top and at the next meeting with the same customer I flip it over to use again or start another. When I get back to my office I stick it in one of these closed file folders labeled with the customer name. I grab the folder when I go to the customer in case I need to look back on my notes, I prefer the closed sides so the cardstock sheets don't fall out.

Thanks - I make a lot of notes as I dial a print in, and I might use 2 or 3 masking steps. So when I have a complex print, that neg ends up in its own folder, and the neg and masks go into glassine envelopes vs. a folder with the whole roll in a print file sleeve. I just put everything in a manila job jacket which is like a file folder but the sides are closed. I staple a 4x5 test print to the front and keep all the folders in a plastic file box. There's a zillion ways to keep track of stuff I'm sure, this works for me and allows me to re-print a neg months later and not have to start from scratch.

These showed up in the "free office supplies" rack in the basement hallway at my work. As you can see thru the rack below, there are dozens of empty 3 ring binders in there as well. Above the staples are some hanging file holders like this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FX6JXNG/ and desktop paper holders/collators like this https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LXHEY3T/.

Typically, small office supplies like like pens, staples, paperclips, liquid paper and post-it notepads are kept in locked cupboards. However sometimes a mass quantity of stuff like this shows up.

There are probably another 2-3000 or so paperclips just to the left of this collection, but individual boxes, or 10-box packs that are open and have boxes missing.

Just plastic Mead folders, with 3 braid binders. Here's an amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/Five-Star-Stay-Put-Pocket-72113/dp/B003O3IUT8

I prefer hard-backed 3 ring binders, but the player that did the folders used these. I think it's because they have the pocket and because it's easier to punch the holes in the front for the rivets.

Yeah I hate having the entire map laid out in front of me. It's pretty easy to make the grid on MS Paint and then I put them in one of these

It's the clamping thumb screw from some kind of vertical hanging file system.

We use them for blueprints, but they work for any large format paper products.

Maps, art, anything like that in your studio?

I use these snap button document folders and puch holes in them to keep them in my binders. I have one for clothing and one for other projects like bags and quilts. What I like about these snap button folders is that they hold everything inside, even when I drop my binder (yes when, this will happen once a week or so). For every pattern I have the paper pieces and a copy of the instructions. I use pattern magazines almost exclusively and I store those in a magazine rack on the wall. The one or two pattern envelopes I have are stored in the binder next to the paper pieces.

I've repurposed the boxes from 100 packs of manila folders. Something like these...

I think she might mean something like this with three holes punched in to go into a binder: http://www.amazon.com/Promarx-2-Pocket-Portfolio-Assorted-XP03-AAE001-100/dp/B00G6N5R0I/ref=sr_1_56?ie=UTF8&qid=1408412922&sr=8-56&keywords=three+hole+punched+folder

they do sell them still. I looked them up a few years ago because my friend had no idea what i was talking about. Images are a little different for this One . Still trying to find originals

Perhaps a slight upgrade to the freezer food bag...!

Snopake Zippa Bag S A5 225X190mm Pack Of 5 Files https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0050OI1TI

Index tabs for file folders

Qualcuno sa come si chiamano queste in italiano? Two fasteners file folders

10 of these weigh 81,6 grams so one empty folder would be 8,16 grams. The dimensions would be lightly larger than A4, it says 245 x 318mm.

I always thought it was this

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Not OP, but I also use a clipboard and take notes on loose paper.

I have a ton of manilla envelopes I use to archive notes in a cardboard box. If I refer to the notes often (say, once a week) I'll put them in a poly envelope.

EDIT: I also digitize my notes.