How do YOU keep track of your Sims?

"hely0t;c-18275903" wrote:
I didn't know keeping track of them in the ways people do was a thing. Interesting looking at this thread so far. I only have a few Sims spread across a few households. It's easy to keep track.

Love the quote! I love Noel Fielding. Hilarious dude.

I know, I was pretty surprised to see all of these different processes too. It's neat. I don't think I'll ever be that organized.

I have a flowchart for the families and lineages in my occult save, all in one chart

I mostly don't. But since I want story progression, what I do is every week or so of game time I'll pop out of playing my legacy family and note which sims have become teens so I can go in and fix their outfits and any really unfortunate genetic mishaps, and I'll make a list of sims that are young adult or older and single, and I'll pair some of them off.

https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVMYR6RnY=/?share_link_id=360763821681 Here's that flowchart I mentioned just to show what I meant

"cchant86;c-18274077" wrote:

I use the old school method of pen and notebook, and organize my screenshots into folders by families, generations, or challenges. Sometimes I'll put together a family tree from screenshots in a graphics program. I have a blog just for my Sims stuff, but I'm so slow about updating it because I'd rather be playing. :smiley:

I don't sort mine as carefully, but once I feel the Screenshots in the game is full enough, I will add a number to the end of it and place it in a folder on my desktop, so I don't confuse myself. (I made a terrible mistake early on. Like the Cache file, I thought the Screenshots folder would create itself. WRONG). I snapped away and then wondered why they went nowhere. I earned the Dunce of the week, with that one. My Cantrell family now has 20 such files, plus the current one. I tend to recall which ones I have used for storytelling. If I took pictures of the other families, I would likely sort them similarly to what you do. When I divided myself between two different saves, I had those photos separate.

I keep rambling blogs in Word files. There’s one for each played family plus some other stat and info files.

"SERVERFRA;c-18275082" wrote:
Not likely. I have way too many households now because I use 9 of my 20 Worlds for each of my 5 different timeline Game Saves.
I think I have about 13 households in each of my Timeline Saves.
I’ve lost track on how much I have now.
It’s been a busy Sims 4 gaming these last 3 years.
I have updated from time to time & I try to make sure my saves are in my tray.
Also I love to share what I’ve built & my sims that I made in the Gallery.?

I don't know how people do it. I have only the one save, currently, and with as many times I've had to restart due to various reasons, including Operator Malfunction, it's all I can do to retell the story with some, hopefully, new spin to it to keep things interesting. LOL