Organise photos in Aperture

Hello,
I bought Aperture and I'm wondering how to organize my 5000 photos in it.
I want to work by year but what should I use for esach year (project,blue folder ??) ?
Inside a year what should I use to organize by event (album, yellow folder or projects ??).
What's the real difference between project and yellow folder and album ?
Thank you for your help to make my organization easy.
Calypso

Calypso,
Huh. You buy an application THEN think about how you're going to use it... Sorry - couldn't resist the dig - I did exactly the same thing.
Rather than repeat a whole bunch of stuff, do a quick search on organising and organisation in this forum - you'll find a whole bunch of prior threads with approaches and ideas. Also try spelling those words with a "z" to capture the people wot don't use English spelling.
The good Mr Boyer has a nice article on his website that you'll probably locate the link to in his search, and bagelturf.com is also worth a look.
Oh, how do I arrange? Blue folder called "my projects", containing another blue folder labelled 2001, 2002 etc. The year folders contain the projects and albums etc. I also have a separate blue folder called Work in Progress, where there is a default project called "Incoming" for the imports, and projects for stuff I'm currently working on.
Enjoy the journey!

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I was wondering if Aperture would let me organise photos in this way:
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