Posted By:
Frank WakefieldAfter fooling with lists, software, and on and on....
I photocopy pages out of the Standard Catalog of the sets I'm chasing. I mark the ones I have with a pencil. For the white border tobacco cards, I eventually started numbering them, so I could see which one was my 400th card, which one was my 401st... and then I started putting a date down, too. That way I could see how time passed as I closed in on 500, and went beyond. I didn't number and date the other sets.
What is great about that is that I can pick it up while I'm looking at eBay, I don't have to open up more software. I can take the list to a show, to a dealer, to a fellow collector's home... that sure makes swapping cards more practicable.
I HIGHLY recommend a photocopied list. I enlarge mine so it covers the page. I'm no longer much of a fan of reducing it to a Word doc or an Excel sheet. Been to both, done both, paper is better for me.