I have some rather similar problems. It inspired me to try to write my own custom database software so I can more easily search through my tons of files, web bookmarks, and ideas. So far, I've only finished the web bookmarks organizer.
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10 years ago I never had these problems. Some of it is from college so it holds nostalgic value but in reality I probably won't benefit that much from saving my notebooks.
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If there's anything valuable in them, using a digital camera to take pictures of the pages with good stuff on them might be worthwhile, if you don't want to keep the physical notebooks, but can't or don't want to take the time to make transcriptions.
If the info is especially valuable and worth the time it would take, then, transcribing it into a text file on a computer might be useful, since that would make the info electronically searchable, copy-and-pasteable, etc.
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I have two computers and can't migrate projects to the laptop because I don't have an effective strategy of dealing with it all.
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I like USB stick drives. It astounds me that gigabytes of info can fit on something so tiny and cheap. One of those can make pretty much any project easily portable from computer to computer.
I don't have any especially clever tips for keeping projects organized. I just try to keep all the files related to a project in the same folder.
Overall, I'm still drowning in clutter but am gradually digging my way out.
I hope this thread gets more responses, I could use some tips too.
Best wishes,
Apollia