Screenshots; balancing numbers, organising, memories and generally dealing with them.

I don't use the in-game screenshot tool very often; most of my screenshots are captured with an external program called Skitch. This not only lets me easily grab bits of the game UI (like notification boxes or moodlet descriptions), it also allows me to easily drag the image anywhere on my computer rather than having them all collect in one folder, and I can sort them as I take them rather than after the fact.

I have my screenshots separated into folders for each house, and then each house has subfolders for each round. Here's an idea of what my system looks like:



The only screenshots that do go in the main Screenshots folder are ones from when my Sims take photos with the in-game camera. I do keep some of these as well, but I make a point to go in and delete out the duplicates and pare down to the ones I really like so they don't take up too much disk space. I then move these to a separate folder as well. (I also tend to open them up and crop them during this process.)

Using an external program also helps me be more inentional about what I take screenshots of. Rather than just hitting "C" as my game plays, I have to pause my game and capture the screenshot, then swipe back to my main desktop to label and drag it to the right folder. Because of this, I don't tend to end up with a lot of "extra" screenshots stored on my computer.

As far as keeping track of your Sims' memories, there's a million ways to do that. I do it on a Blogger site, but you could just as easily do it in Powerpoint or even just in an Word document. Pretty much anything you can do with real life photos, you can do with your Sims screenshots.