I store my patterns in a metal file cabinet. I still have a lot of garment patterns so I store those by the kind of pattern, ie Simplicity, Butterick, etc. and then in numerical order and I have a copy of each pattern front which I have in a notebook sorted by type of garment. My other patterns for quilts or quilt type garments are sorted by quilts, garments, and miscellaneous. I have taken a picture of each pattern, named each (which puts them in alphabetical order), and then printed the folder from the computer with a thumbprint of each picture. Patterns from magazines, Internet, etc are in binder with an index at the front. I am getting ready to go through all my magazines and scan only the patterns I want to keep and then get rid of the magazines.