From the course: Productivity Tips for Creative Pros

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Organize your files

Organize your files

- For this tip, we're going to talk about file hygiene. And when I say file hygiene, I mean finding a appropriate folder structure within your computer so that you can easily find your files. As designers, our files are our biggest asset, and we need to be able to find them quickly and efficiently and also be able to save storage on our computers that we're using to design on. - So, for the first part of this tip, we want to talk more about cloud-based storage, why it's important to us, and how we use it. We use Dropbox, and one great thing about it is that within the files that we use, it saves version history. So, for example, this is our Ventana Art Print series, and I can click into these and look at the version history. And that's a great way that, especially if Dan and I are going back and forth on a project and I say, "You know what? I actually like the version that you made yesterday and not the changes from today," we can go back and grab that. Or, if you accidentally delete…

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