
I've been doing a lot of digital cleanup and reorganization as of late: sorting, deleting, and something I've been slacking on a bit too much, keywording photos.

This post, [Lightroom 2 Technique: Staying Organized with Controlled Vocabulary by Eric Scouten](http://blog.ericscouten.com/2009/02/lightroom-2-technique-staying-organized-with-controlled-vocabulary/ "Lightroom 2 Technique: Staying Organized with Controlled Vocabulary by Eric Scouten"), made quite a few excellent points on keeping you Lightroom library clean. One thing that I really liked was his suggestion for bottom-sinking tags:

> The solution, for me, was to place all of my keywords under top-level category headers, as shown here:
> 
> [![http://blog.ericscouten.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/picture-1.png](http://assets.brandonmartinez.com/brandonmartinez/2012/01/picture-1.png "Example of Eric's Keywords")](http://assets.brandonmartinez.com/brandonmartinez/2012/01/picture-1.png)
> 
> \[…\] There’s nothing special about the «» characters, except that they cause the keyword to sink to the bottom of the list on Mac. \[…\] I’m unlikely to use them otherwise, so they stand out for me. You could just as easily use \_, $, regular old angle brackets < >.

He makes a few other good points, so be sure to read the whole post: [Lightroom 2 Technique: Staying Organized with Controlled Vocabulary](http://blog.ericscouten.com/2009/02/lightroom-2-technique-staying-organized-with-controlled-vocabulary/ "Lightroom 2 Technique: Staying Organized with Controlled Vocabulary by Eric Scouten")


Lightroom 2 Technique: Staying Organized with Keywords