Media Storage

Written by Lee Wyatt (last updated December 15, 2020)

No matter where you go in today's world, you find your self surrounded by media. Whether it is books and magazines, to the music collection you have at home, you can't seem to get around having some type of media in your life. The real question though, is what to do with this huge collection that seems to only grow on a daily basis?

If you have found yourself faced with this problem then you need to look into media storage. Media storage is a means to being able to organize your collection in a safe and neat manner that will allow you to find what you are looking for quickly. To those ends, here are a few suggestions that are designed to help you develop the best possible media storage system for your needs.

  • Types. There are all kinds of different types of media storage that you can use to help organize your collection. There are bookshelves, and computers, Ipods, and so much more. The first thing that you need to do is determine what kind of media you are wanting to store and organize. This will determine what type of system you should use. For example, if you are wanting to store books and magazines, then you may want to look at using either a bookshelf or a scanned image of the book if you are more digitally minded.
  • Develop a method. Regardless of what type of media storage you use, you will need to develop a method for your storage system. If you are an avid collector of music, then separate all the music by year, artist, album or any combination of these. The main thing that you need to keep in mind when developing a system is that it needs to make sense to you, not necessarily to anyone else.
  • Implement the method. Once you have developed the method, it is time to implement it. What this means is to go through your media collection, and begin separating everything how you want it. Once you have done that, begin using your media storage device to hold everything again. For example, if you are storing books, either place them into their respective locations on the bookshelf, or begin scanning and organizing things on your computer.
  • Maintain the method. After you have implemented the method, you need to keep it up. It will do absolutely no good whatsoever, to go through all of this work, to only have to do it all over again in a few months because you didn't keep the method going.

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Lee Wyatt

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