S/O organizing die-cuts

Right now, i dont have too many does. I keep then stored on old promotional fridge magnets. I several have magnets advertising sports schedules that are 4x8ish.
I will consider gluing business card sized magnets together if I get rough dies that I need more storage! Eventually, I'll fix them to a cork board or something, but in the mean time, it's a pretty unobtrusive way to contain them.

I use the 4x6 iris cases in the bigger carrying case. I store by what comes in a package.

I've actually just changed mine to colour as I've found myself thinking by colour thanks to the BYOK challenge here. I have my colours sorted into the 4x6 photo cases shown above and have combined similar colours (like yellow and orange, or pink and red, or black, white and silver) into one case. I've tried sorting supplies by colour before but other than brads it's not a method that has worked particularly well so I'll see how it goes this time.

Prior to this I had mine split into two categories - things with words and things without words. I don't have a massive stash of them so that worked for me for a long time. I usually found when I was putting pages together I instinctively knew if I wanted more words on my page so it made sense to how I looked for supplies. I stored them in two small open containers so I could rifle through the contents easily.

I only have two theme categories - Christmas and Travel - which are stored in the theme drawers. Everything else is mixed together.

my die cuts are stored by color in DVD cases along with all other embellishments like brads, clips, labels, stickers
it really works for me because I think "I need something YELLOW over here" not "that MME floral die cut should go here"

Like Chinagirl828 I also separate out Christmas and Travel

I don't store by color but when I need a die cut I may want something yellow but if I'm scrapping with a paticular line then I would want the die cut to fit in if you kwim. For instance if I needed a yellow die cut I probably wouldn't put a Amy tan one on a Maggie Holmes spread their styles are too different.

I struggle with this as well
Colour sorting doesn't work for me
Maybe I will keep together by line

Maybe I should have listed this in the Organizing Regrets thread....

Currently, all of my Die Cuts are in piles to be taped onto cardstock sheets and stored in a 12x12 binder, sorted by color. It's going super slow, it's super tedious, and I may never finish.

The IDEA is for me to be able to go "shop for a color" and find something that works. Have I mentioned tedious?

I started doing the sort-by-color thing. I found it works better with fewer diecuts. Once I had most of mine sorted by color, I had so many that I would have to dump out the entire container to go through them and find the ones I would use. That got to be super-tedious (to use your phrase). I found that sorting by the package works much better for me. I will dump out the whole package but it's less to dump. I was worried about whether I would be sad about not sorting by color, but the fact that I have a thumbnail on the spine (see my photo in my post above) helps me find the boxes with colors I might want to use. 

Just an option you might try if you are frustrated with the current one.

Thanks thracian. I need to parse this project up a little, and sort them all by color FIRST. I haven't been able to use any in months because of the project status....I think if I can sort by color then I will at least be able to break it up and feel some accomplishment. Right now I'm in the never-ending abyss of a giant shopping bag chock full of "giblets".