Reddit mentions: The best manila file folders

NO lamination.

Gaylord Archival supply sells on Amazon and are a good company. Hit up your family for gift cards to Amazon to help defray costs as this stuff is expensive.

Paper can be stored in archival folders (they look like manilla or white ones but are acid-free) or poly folders. (FYI, I blow through tons of these from B&H, they seem more affordable than the gaylord ones.)

Put anything fragile in the poly sleeves, as close to the size as you can. (Or, in other words, don't let it bounce around in a sleeve that it too big, nor be damaged by one that is too small).

ONLY buy poly folders that are PAT" passed. It will be in the description or a little logo and is the only certification that matters. You will see all kinds of "archival-friendly" terms which are meaningless.

I put my tintypes in a photo sleeve and then into a box. Between each, I put a piece of felt (craft store) or heavy acid-free paper so they don't scratch each other.

Newspaper is the most frustrating as no matter what you do, it will continue to yellow and become brittle. The acids in the paper destroy it form within and only de-acidifying will slow it. But this is expensive and may destroy the piece. Make newspaper your scanning priority.

If you protect the individual items you can skip, for now, the super-expensive archival boxes and use regular boxes. As long as the items are safe, in a climate controlled environment, have pretty even temperature year-round, and no smoke, regular boxes are fine. Invest in protecting each item first—that will give you more bang for your buck.

BTW, a flatbed scanner works GREAT for scanning tintypes. Just invest in a stand-alone scanner with the highest resolution you can find. The kind attached to a printer is not made for photos and not worth scanning with. I like this model as it scans slides and negatives, too.

Scan documents at minimum of 300ppi (archives scan at 600ppi) and photos at minimum of 600ppi. The smaller the image the higher resolution you should scan. Save images as TIF or PNG, not JPG.

Also buy some back-up drives and/or a cloud subscription. You will chew up hard drive space but hard drives are cheap. Backups and cloud storage insures that you are protected in case your hard drive dies (which they do) or your house burns down.

Lastly, you can buy cotton gloves but many archives now prefer clean hands to gloves. When wearing gloves, it is almost impossible to feel what you are grabbing, and very easy to damage paper. Wash your hands well before handling materials and you should be fine.

Source: I'm an archivist(ish—still in school).

UPDATE: Had wrong B&H link. Fixed.

These are the folders I used: 4-section manila folder (Sections are the number of surfaces that papers can be fastened to. 4 section has one divider, for a total of 4 interior surfaces.)

(and these are a more simple folder I use for a different game: 2 section manila folders )

For the redacted documents, I used a chapter from one of david weber's honor harrington books (from the baen free library). The redacting itself took some time, but once done I just reprinted it for the other folders.

The largest component was time... actually making the characters was pretty fast. Since they were legendary rank, I just gave them what I wanted. :)

I'm thinking of upgrading to these 4-section or even these 6-section. They're pretty expensive, but they'll last a loooong time.

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
  
  

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.

I always thought it was this

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

I guess, for $17 I'm not surprised that the border is more similar to those light yellow file folder than the light light beige on the auth

here is the color I'm referring to

auth