One good organizing trick is to create a new runtime for each major change of scene. In 'general preferences', set file seach to NONE, and then copy each of the needed items into this runtime as you encounter them. Let Poser tell you when something is missing.

I tried using spreadsheets but found they were too clumsy. For my courseware projects I just keep a worklog in text form for each chapter.

Discipline matters more than format. If you always record each step in the worklog, you'll have enough info to recover from errors.

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