On a different vector, I think there’s a bit of ambiguity when describing Josh’s list as “levels”. It’s really more of “categories”, meaning, from one giant unsorted box, here are six general types of brick you might find…
I think some confusion has crept in here. Probably my fault. Those categories are not the “levels” I’m referring to. If you dig around in the spreadsheet Josh linked to, you’ll find a tab showing four levels as columns. Essentially, his scheme goes like this:
Level 1 is those six categories. A Level 1 sort leaves you with 6 “sorted” bins and an angry LUG. (Probably)
Level 2 is, for example, breaking down bricks by width.
Level 3 is breaking down bricks by length too.
Level 4 is color.
I’ve added Level 5 to represent stacking. I also have a somewhat different personal opinion about what’s in each level, as regards certain categories – as you can see by the spreadsheet not having 150+ rows – but that’s the general idea.
As for what I did with vehicles/technic for this box, I have separate bags for:
– tires (several sizes together)
– big wheels (one type)
– small wheels (several types together)
– wheel-axle plates (not quite all one type)
– assorted windscreens together
– technic pins (all types together)
– pin-bricks and pin-plates
– technic axles, bricks, plates, and whatever else
That last bag is the least sorted of the whole batch; some other bags have at most about four shapes, or something like that. (e.g. both 2×3 and 2×4 wedge plates, left and right = 4 shapes in one bag. Didn’t feel like sorting those further.) But most of it is one shape per bag, and plenty of bags have just one color.