Are you wondering how to organize information like recipes, products, reviews, stories, and more from your favorite magazines?

Looking for several ways to keep everything organized and ready for your immediate use and/or future reference?

Below are seven ways to organize all the different articles and information you’re apt to find in a magazine.

Read now…and flag information for later.

Keep a set of small sticky flags or notes on your office desk, countertop or in your purse or bag.

As you browse through your subscriptions, simply affix a sticky flag or note next to items that catch your eye, be it a recipe you’d like to try out, or a new website you’d like to visit.

You could also dog-ear magazine corners in a pinch to mark information of interest.

You can then easily reference these marked items at a later date.

Take a photo with your cellphone.

For an easy visual reference, snap a photo of a new local restaurant’s website, a new fiction book you’d like to read, or an inspirational quote or passage.

You can then organize these images using your photo program or other app and ditch the hardcopies of your magazines.

Make a temporary bulletin board collage.

Tear off magazine pages, organize them by type and pin to a bulletin board until you process them.

For example, if there’s a bunch of different recipes you’d like to try out, you can tear out the recipes from magazines, organize them together in one section of the bulletin board and then compile a shopping list.

If there’s a whole bunch of fashion blogs you’d like to visit online, tear out the websites, organize them together and visit the blogs at your leisure.

Add information to your daily planner.

Did you come across an ad for a set of cufflinks that would be perfect for your brother’s birthday in April?

Either write the item down in your paper planner the date you came across the information, or a bit forwards in the future so you can reference the information and use it.

In this case, you might want to right down the product name, company and website three weeks before your brother’s birthday so you can place the special order online.

Make magazine file folders.

Keep information out of sight and comfortably out of mind by storing your articles and other information in file folders.

You could organize items by month, publications, recipes, short stories, new products to try out, items you’d like to read in depth…the sky’s the limit!

Make sure to regularly clear your folders of items you’ve finished reading, no longer need, or are severely dated to keep the folders neat and trim.

Go digital.

If you’re looking to keep the amount of hard copy magazines down in your home or office, check to see if your favorite articles or information are also available in the digital versions of publications.

Once you find these items online, bookmark them to your favorite internet browser or bookmarking app and file for current or future reading.

Create a magazine article binder.

Use a 2” or larger three-ring-binder and clear-sleeve storage pockets to store articles from magazines.

Should you desire, you could create different tabbed sections for different magazines, or use individual binders for separate publications altogether.

Just like the file folders, consider cleaning out these binders on a regular basis to keep things in check.

How about you? What information do you like collecting from magazines? Which of the above tips do you think you’ll put to use? Join the conversation and leave a comment below!