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I'm sorting by color now!
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lugnet.build
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Thu, 4 Nov 1999 17:43:50 GMT
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jsproat@/saynotospam/io.com
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...after almost a year of sorting by form and functionality. That's more than
30,000 Lego pieces, sorted by color into about a dozen plastic drawers
measuring roughly 11 x 13 x 3 inches. (1)
Oh no! It's so hard to find The-Piece-I-Need now!
Well...not yeally. The larger bins -- namely black, light gray, red, white,
and yellow -- overflow single drawers and will soon be given a secondary sort
by form. Technic pieces (except for beams and plates) are sill kept aside and
sorted by form; the same applies for minifigs, animals, baseplates, wheels,
pieces with labels or stickers, and some other stuff. The goal is to keep
each drawer no more than ~ 80% full.
I was dreading the re-sort, and I was especially not looking forward to
playing within this scheme. But it has proven to be exceptionally good. I'm
so glad that Barbara made me do it. :-,
I've discovered something about the way I build, something which Barbara has
tried to point out to me for quite some time. Sure, it's harder to find
The-Piece-I-Need exactly, but while rooting through the bin I discover pieces
which work much better. As a result, new creations look better (in a
monochrome sort of way) and are built faster than before. Also, less time is
spent agonizing over the right color during the design of a new model, which
is a Good Thing. To paraphrase Don Knuth, "premature beautification is evil."
I am totally blown away by how well this works. What is everyone's take on
it? Are some of you who previously sorted by form now sorting by color as
well? Vice-versa? What experiences have you had in switching from one
organization method to another? How frequently do some of you change sorting
methods?
Cheers,
- jsproat
1. Sterilite "ClearView" 3-Drawer Organizers. These things are awesome.
--
Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@io.com> ~~~ http://www.io.com/~jsproat/
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Message has 9 Replies:
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| On Thu, 4 Nov 1999 17:43:50 GMT, Sproaticus <jsproat@io.com> wrote: Ugh, sorting by colour. -_-; I've got all my bricks sorted by colour, I have both halves of the Futuron monorail set filled with black and grey bricks. Both halves of the second (...) (25 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.build)
| | | Re: I'm sorting by color now!
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| (...) jerremy ~ i've sorted by color since day one, and it's the only way to go-go, baby! after color division, i go brick, plate, slope, with plates divided into large (a 4x4 plate being the smallest of these) and small (including all 2x). reds (...) (25 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.build)
| | | Re: I'm sorting by color now!
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| Jeremy: You make some quite good points about sorting by colour, but you will not make me shift. I don't mind building the first iterations of a model in random colours, but I do like to know where I can find the piece I am missing. Play well, Jacob (...) (25 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.build)
| | | Re: I'm sorting by color now!
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| I have to say I am firmly on the sort by form side. It may be because I don't have as many pieces as many of you guys, but once mine are sorted into the kind of part they are, it is very easy for the eye to pick out the color I want. If all of mine (...) (25 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.build)
| | | Re: I'm sorting by color now!
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| (...) I use both methods, shameless mixing and matching. :) My more specialized pieces are sorted function-first. I find it much easier when looking for a red 1x4 arch to search through a (relatively) small drawer of arches, than to sea the (...) (25 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.build)
| | | Re: I'm sorting by color now!
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| Sproat wroat: (...) I started out sorting by color, then resorted to form (because the arguments for it sounded so LOGICAL), then found I hated having things sorted that way and went back to by color. I now have enough basic bricks that they have to (...) (25 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.build)
| | | Re: I'm sorting by color now!
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| (...) I sort by form and color. I have LEGO storage drawers (5225, 545, etc.). Each drawer is a color. 1 drawer for each color of 1x, 2x and plates. I also have drawers for miscellaneous elements by color: expanders, roofs, 5 tall bricks, rounds, (...) (25 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.build)
| | | Re: I'm sorting by color now!
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| (...) cool, you are going to eventually be sorting exactly the way I do :) my mind control device must be working, slowly but surely.... I sort each color into the following bins by form: boring rectangular bricks- 1 large bin each plates- 1 small (...) (25 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.build)
| | | Re: I'm sorting by color now!
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| On Thu, 4 Nov 1999 17:43:50 GMT, Sproaticus <jsproat@io.com> wrote: [storage discussion snipped] Ya know, there's a really good reason that lugnet.storage exists. Sheesh, one guy posts an innocent message about an indecent storage method, and (...) (25 years ago, 8-Nov-99, to lugnet.build)
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