Organizing Visual Novels

[Red_Rain77]

hey guys i was wondering how you keep your visual novels organized

im currently using a program called launch box which is great and all but i takes awhile to manually add each game to the program. what do you guys use?

 

 

[Fiddle]

[Deep Blue]

I use vndb to keep a record of what vns I own, I don't use anything for normal games... but that program looks good I might give it a try.

EDIT:This is really similar to what steam does with some extra features.

[Yuuko]

I don't

[Dergonu]

I simply keep one big folder called "VNs" on my desktop, and have a few sub folders in there with all my games. 

 

1 for Mangagamer 

1 for Denpasoft / SP

1 for Saya on Uta. Erhem, I mean Jast. 

And then 1 for fan translations / untranslated games. 

 

I have my VNDB, though I suck at updating it, so I'm not really organized at all when it comes to VNs. I just go through my stupid amount of titles and find one I want to read next  

[SilverLi]

A VN folderon my desktop. I am not organizing them except in alphabetical order. 

[Asonn]

I have a VN folder, and in the VN folder I have an TL folder and in that folder I have all kind of genres from Nukige, Yuri, Nakige and much more and in my VN folder I also have a 日本語 folder with the same style of sorting like my TL folder. 

I might also add that I add my VNs as non-steam games on steam and set them in a category.... 

[Dergonu]

1 hour ago, Asonn said:

I have a VN folder, and in the VN folder I have an TL folder and in that folder I have all kind of genres from Nukige, Yuri, Nakige and much more and in my VN folder I also have a 日本語 folder with the same style of sorting like my TL folder. 

I might also add that I add my VNs as non-steam games on steam and set them in a category.... 

OH right! That's possilbe on steam. 

 

Can other people see what you play when you do that?

It would be hilarious to fire up a random nukige from Mangagamer, and have my steam friends see: "Dergonu is playing: Suck my dick or die!" 

[Darbury]

Airtable. It's an online spreadsheet/relational database hybrid that's great for these kinds of tasks, especially if you have a large collection to sort through.

(Not as pretty as LaunchBox, of course...)

[Scorp]

I am completely okay with "Games" folder and games there. As I use 10x2 TB HDD all installed on same PC, there is no problem to track VNs I read. All physical stuff is on my shelf, so no problem to organize that as well.

[Asonn]

48 minutes ago, Dergonu said:

OH right! That's possilbe on steam. 

 

Can other people see what you play when you do that?

It would be hilarious to fire up a random nukige from Mangagamer, and have my steam friends see: "Dergonu is playing: Suck my dick or die!" 

yes, they will 

[Dergonu]

49 minutes ago, Asonn said:

yes, they will 

That is awesome

[littleshogun]

I think for my organizing VN, just put it in local disc D and E instead of desktop. Well, I'd also put the VN in unique name folder for each 6 - 7 VN (Or only 4 VN for some folder). Other than that, not much different from some member here in regard of storing VN.

[Meat_Bun1]

For Steam, I divide it up into finished, "in progress", and not started. For non-Steam ones, I have a flash drive for unfinished (in progress or not started) games and one for finished ones. I use VNDB to track all the ones I have obtained and/or read and I'm very good about that (although I never say I am playing one; just stalled or finished).

[Hanako]

I just put Yuri VN in the task bar, and the rest is irrevelent 

[TexasDice]

All of my stuff is in a folder called  , so that in the case of someone looking inside, they'll go "Thank god, it's just hentai".

[AaronIsCrunchy]

I have a folder enticingly titled 'VNs' which sits in My Documents. So it's not organised at all, really

[Leaf]

On 5/29/2016 at 2:47 PM, AaronIsCrunchy said:

I have a folder enticingly titled 'VNs' which sits in My Documents. So it's not organised at all, really

Hey what a coincidence. Not like I have much to show off.