Recipe Organization

For the past few years I've been avidly collecting recipes. Anything that had a recipe on it  I'd keep, because you never know when you'll just want something different or someone will be looking for a certain recipe. I love reading recipes and making them. Sometimes it turns out awesome, other times not so much. Anyway, I had accumulated a decent sized box, filled to the top, with recipes. I had been racking my brain about how I wanted to go about organizing them. I had thought about recopying all of them onto recipe cards and then filing them into several recipe boxes. But that seemed to tedious, besides I'm so OCD that I'd probably waste more cards just trying to get my handwriting exactly how I wanted it. That idea, out the window. So now what do I do. I had thought about retyping them all and submitting them to my recipe box on kraftfoods.com and then making a cookbook out of them. It too would take so much time and I'd have to pay for the cookbook. Another idea out the window. I started researching some organization techniques and ran across one that just seemed to simple. I don't know why this wasn't the first idea. It was just a 3 ring binder with tab seperators. This was one I was willing to tackle. I already had an extra binder lying around and instead of the actual tab pages. I just bought the post-it flags, that you can write on and attached them to cardstock. It was much cheaper that way. And now I don't know why I waited so long to do this. I seperated my notebook into 12 categories Drinks, Tea Time, Mexican/Chinese Food, Appetizers & Snacks, Rice Dishes, Pasta Dishes, Canning Recipes, Soups, Misc., Dough Recipes and Desserts. Unfortunatly, I ran out of room so the desserts tab had to be left out and it will get it's own notebook. I was done organizing 4 years worth of recipes in about 3 days. I will be posting pics of the notebook, so maybe you can get some ideas. You may not even have the same "tabs" as me, that's just worked best for my recipe book.