>>10397970Personally I find part type much easier to seek by than color, especially when a lot of the nitpicky things you're mentioning like the 2x4 vs. 2x3 is either identical or WAY worse by color. Seeking a particular size part in a sea of identically-colored parts sounds like a nightmare. The color actually helps differentiate what you're looking at. I group my staple bricks by size, usually separating them by 1xN, 2xN, evens, odds, etc. That's enough of a compartmentalization for me; any more cutting-up than that and I'd run into the same problem you briefly mentioned: the organization system not actually making anything faster.
The biggest thing is just picking a convention and sticking to it. It gets a lot faster to find pieces when you've used the same system long enough to form kinesthetic memory. Esp. with my toolboxes it took me a bit to learn which box was which when going only by feel.
