Help & opinions from super organizers

[westhc]

I am finally and truly organizing all my diy flavors into drawers in a storage cabinet.
I have all the simple fruits organized (that was easy) and am now starting on the mixes.

I am the type of person that has 4 places for everything and everything in its place so yes I have multiples of some things. The logical place for something will depend on my mind set at that time.

So I am debating. Should fruit mixes like lemonades/margarita/citrus punch go with the drinks section - champagne/teas/rootbeer etc. or with the mixed fruit sections - cherry berry/razzleberry/orange cream, etc.
Where will marshmallow go? Hibiscus? Oba Oba?

Easy other sections will be creams, vanillas, bakery, sweeteners,....

I know I should end up labeling each drawer with what is in the drawer and its location but ........particularly when flavors are added/deleted. - current count is 154 bottles of flavor. Way too many!

So how do you organize?

 

[BrotherBob]

Along these lines with sub categories mainly in the bakery (specialize) classifications:
Vape Juice and E-Liquid Flavors for E-Cigarettes - Vaping360

I have also a Nut section along with Creams/Custards/Vanilla/MM among others suited to my taste.
Example:
Butterscotch/Butter Rum/ Ripple/Toffee etc.
I find cross referencing the mains [dominant flavor(s)] in the recipes that can get hairy/trickey.

 

[Who_Dey_1991]

For any flavors that don't fall into any of the categories you've created, I'd suggest using the magic word: Misc.

 

[OlderNDirt]

I like simple and since my current inventory pales in comparison to many, alphabetical works for me. I could foresee at some future point as inventory increases, having alphabetical within each brand.

 

[jambi]

I have mine arranged by brand. Early on I experimented with arranging by type and ran into too many potentially confusing situations. In other words, I had to think too hard about where a specific flavor should be. Seemed easier to arrange by brand. Now that I'm pushing 300 flavors, I'm glad I went with sorting by brand. I don't even want to think about trying to find a single bottle mixed in with a hundred different fruit flavors.

Within the brand drawers, I still sort (roughly) by type. Example my TFA drawer, all the fruits are along one side, caramels/butterscotches, enhancers/additives, creams, tobaccos, etc. all grouped together. I basically know by heart now where the bottle I'm looking for is.

If I had enough space to put everything in one place, I'd go alphabetical or devise a numbering system, but I'd still group by brand first, because that's just how it makes the most sense to me.

 

[Kenna]

By category. tobacco's, Creams (+ marshmellows, custards), fruits, Candies, Bakery, Sweetners & Enhancers, Chocolates/Coffees/Nuts.
I do not separate by brand. If it's a chocolate, for instance, all my Chocolate of any kind are together in one spot. Over organizing is repiticious, confusing, & a waste of time & energy. If a recipe calls for Cap/TFA/FA marshmellow there is one place to look for it. If it's not there then I don't have it. Think about grocery stores, or hardware stores. Every type of screwdriver is in one place. Phillips, torq, flathead. Every brand in one spot usually sorted by style. Not by brand. All in one spot. You don't have a section for everything SnapOn, everything Craftsman. You'd spend hours running around looking for all the screwdrivers in order to compare & choose. Plus you need a hammer & drill bits. More running around.
All Strawberries go together in the fruit section. All custards togrther in thr Cream section.
As your inventory grows you may need more sections. Peanut butter goes with nuts. Tiramisu goes with coffees or maybe bakery depending on what you think of first when considering it. I think coffee, so that's where it is. I try to limit categories to just a few. KISS works for me. That reminds me, I need more racks.


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[JCinFLA]

Mine aren't organized by brand, ABC order, etc. I started numbering mine as I ordered/received them. That way I don't have to rearrange any of them in my sectioned organizer cases, as I get new ones. I just add them into space in the next section that I'm filling up.

I use a paint pen and number the cap. Then I add that number and flavoring name to index card lists that I have taped to the underneath side of my organizers' lids. When the lid is opened during a mixing session...the index card that has specific flavorings and their numbers on it, is right above the section that contains those flavorings. There's room for 14 flavorings in nearly every rectangular section in the organizers.

Has worked great so far, and never takes more than a quick glance at the cards to locate and pull out the flavorings I want to use. Putting them back in the right sections when finished is super easy, too.

ETA: I also have the flavoring numbers written beside each one's name on the hard copies of my recipes, as well as beside them online in my saved recipes. Makes it even easier to pick them out when getting ready to mix, and replace them when finished.

 

[28if]

I use @JCinFLA method but I use Sterlite cases lettered A, B, C... I also use @HotRod eliquid calculator where he has a location field available. For example FA Raspberry is A22.

When making a recipe, I pull out flavor 22 from case A. Easy peazy.


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[jpasint]

Straight alphabetical order for me.
All 360 of them.

 

[Frenchfry1942]

Excel spreadsheet by brand, then alphabetical. Inventory is one sheet and each recipe is on a separate sheet. Linking cells for updating and showing how many recipes use a same flavor is pretty easy. And, there is a Table of Contents sheet, too.

Excel does good for tracking a lot of things.

 

[westhc]

Wow - so many great ideas and different approaches. It really made me stop and think some more about how my mind works.

I'm still still moving ahead with organizing by type. The first drawer is done with 2 sections - Fruits and Fruit Blends. I did organize them by fruit regardless of what the brand and/or flavor name is - if it is a peach it is together with other peaches regardless of whether it is named juicy peach, white peach, yellow peach....

I too have all flavors in an Excel spreadsheet that can be sorted every which way and will add location to the spreadsheet (I hope).

The bad ??? news is that I have already found that I need to order a few things.
But if I get up to 300 flavors I'm going to need a bigger boat.

 

[28if]

Go ahead and order that boat. [emoji3]


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[Kenna]

Wow - so many great ideas and different approaches. It really made me stop and think some more about how my mind works.

I'm still still moving ahead with organizing by type. The first drawer is done with 2 sections - Fruits and Fruit Blends. I did organize them by fruit regardless of what the brand and/or flavor name is - if it is a peach it is together with other peaches regardless of whether it is named juicy peach, white peach, yellow peach....

I too have all flavors in an Excel spreadsheet that can be sorted every which way and will add location to the spreadsheet (I hope).

The bad ??? news is that I have already found that I need to order a few things.
But if I get up to 300 flavors I'm going to need a bigger boat.

Mine are in a spreadsheet, too. Colorcoded by what I have, what I have/had & don't like, what I want to try, & next order.

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[westhc]

The flavors are in their new home with room to spare. Made drawer dividers out of cardboard which worked well. Now I have 2 empty tool boxes and can buy more tools - ha!

I still need to update the spreadsheet with categories and make sure all flavors are in the spreadsheet and all my notes are up to date.
Still have to move all the measuring and mixing apparatus into the storage cart. Luckily there are still empty drawers.

This has not been a small project but I am sure I will be happy I have done it.

Next project really should be going through all those bottles of juices I have made and see what is there - probably at least 60 bottles of all sizes from small sample bottles up to 30ml bottles.

Does it ever end? The big ? = will I keep up with the organization or just do it all again in a year or so.

 

[OlderNDirt]

Based on my almost 3 years' vaping experience, my storage rule is:

What is sufficient and future proof today will become woefully insufficient within 3 - 6 months!

YMMV

 

[westhc]

Did my first mixing with the newly organized flavors. It was a snap.
And have my next order all lined up waiting for Memorial Day sales. Everything new should fit.

 

[DaveP]

I haven't gotten to the point of issues with where to find what I need, but I only have a hundred or so flavors. I keep those in a snap top Harbor Freight organizer box with with square sections. Those are somewhat divided according to flavor category. My tobaccos are together and my fruit and candy flavors are in their own location in the box.

It's interesting to hear about how all of you organize juice flavors, though. I'll learn and compare and probably adopt the one that seems to work best.