Daoine’s Mischief

Yup. It’s a lot of lenses to keep track of. Even if you have 50, you probably feel like you’re doing a bit of a juggling act.

I’m thrilled to bits with the new(ish) Dashboard features. Here’s how I’ve arranged my updating schedule:

 
• In addition to all the other labels I’ve madly created, I’ve added four new “Quarterly” labels (January to March; April to June; July to September; and October to December).
• All my Valentine’s lenses (including WIP Valentine’s lenses) go in the Jan-Mar category. These need to be updated in January so that they are ready for February. During February I just need to keep a check on them and update things like search terms and popular products.
• Mother’s Day and Father’s Day lenses go into the April to June section – same deal: update in April, check during May and/or June. (Plus Father’s Day goes into July-September also, for Australian Father’s Day.)
• Halloween lenses go into both the July-September and October-December sections. Updating starts in July.
• Christmas lenses go into October-December with updating overlapping Halloween. That tends to be a hectic period.
• Non-seasonal lenses go into a quieter quarter. Movie lenses go into the quarter related to when the movie comes on circuit, and are then moved to the quarter related to when the DVD is released.

Then the important part: set the quarter you are in as the new Default page. Currently my default page is July-September, meaning that all my Halloween lenses are in front of me for updating.

I was originally going to sort this month by month, but I think quarterly will be fine.