How do you organize drabbles?

[valiha]

and short stories in calibre? Do you merge all drabbles written by one author into one html, which is what I was thinking about, or keep them separate? Would you also merge all short stories into a sort of a Fanfiction Anthology for that particular author or fandom or whatever?

ETA I also need advice on how to title fics such as anon fills in kinkmemes, multiple fils of a single prompt, anon comment fics and what kind of regex to use in calibre's Preferences > Import/Export > Add books section in such cases, or would I need a different one for each occasion?

Right now I have

(?P<author>[^_-]+) -?\s*(?P<series>[^_0-9-]*)(?P<series_index>[0-9]*)\s*-\s*(?P<title>[^_].+) ?

which handles those with titles such as Author - Series # - Title.ext well; how would you go about saving fills from, say, norsekink, if you didn't want to save each fill separately?

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[valiha]

I hate the idea of doing it. I'd much rather keep them separate, but I'm trying to organize my fic library with calibre but I'm having trouble with organizing my various and coming up with meaningful names.

Some drabbles I've saved over the years are fills to anon kink memes or comment fics without much of a title - how do I treat those? name them Drabble #1, #2 etc? Add the fandom and/or theme of the drabble to the title? Or maybe group all drabbles covering the same theme into separate chapters of an html file? What would be your suggestion in that case?

[trialia]

It's understandable. That's why I make sure to title all my non-anonymous drabbles, even after the fact (I add them to my own archive, so I have to give them titles of some sort for that).

I would say fandom and theme and possibly pairing or character focus as a title, and maybe the date? Depends on how many you've got of each kind, really.

[valiha]

(Ugh, I'm glad you understood what I was trying to say because what did I even write there?? It was supposed to be "having trouble with coming up with meaningful names.)

Pairing not so much since I'm predominantly a gen reader, and character focus would also be used only occasionally because I gravitate towards fandoms that have a group of characters with more or less equal standing. Even when canon leans towards emphasizing one or two characters in a group, it usually balances out in fiction. But perhaps for at least some of them.

I was thinking perhaps Fandom - Anon - Title, but calibre is going to treat that as Author - Series - Title so that won't work. Fandom - Theme - what about title? Do I just use Various if I combine all fills of the same theme; or do I combine just the promps which have had multiple fills and use the prompt as the title?

So I also need advice on how to title such fics and what kind of regex to use in calibre's Preferences > Import/Export > Add books section.