One of my favorite organizing tools is color coding my files. I am a very visual person, and it helps me to see the colors that hold meaning to me.

Color coding your files on a Mac is super easy, simply right click on the file or folder and select the label color you want to use! That’s it.
Here’s my system. I mostly use Green, Yellow and Nothing for my kits (my CU has a more complex system, and I have one for designs in progress too but we don’t need to get into that). Here is how I code my kits and templates. Maybe something this simple would work for you or maybe something else would work better!
Green – I purchased the kit and it’s been used.
Blue – I purchased the kit and it needs to be used
Yellow – I’ve used the kit to scrap a layout
No Color – Means it was free, a gift or a CT kit and it hasn’t been used.
and here’s my system at work.
Windows users: Boop has shared this program you can get for your PC that does similar things. She has tested it, I have not. If you have questions you can leave them here and we will get her to try and answer them for you!
Happy Color Coding!
PS: Wondering how I got all of those folder icons to show up on my Mac? Check out this tutorial here.