[lxdesk]

Personal work goes into a sync folder organized by year.

References are organized by media type, then by general subject, then (usually) by author. I mark up filenames with tags so that I have some options for tracking down stuff with file search.

When I want to collect references for a project they get copied out.

What I've noticed is that the organization ought to reflect the mind, and the mind doesn't run on Internet Time. You probably aren't a professional librarian archiving the whole world's knowledge, but rather a person who is using curation to say "this is what I like" and create a quick-access space for self-exploration. If you go too general in your organizational patterns, if you archive too much or archive unseen works, you won't use it. You might as well run off to a search engine in that case. So it has to be more of a gradual-phases accumulation.

The most recent change is that I started copying more, because I'm aiming not to data-hoard and with current capacities it's hard to fill up the drive with references without falling into hoarding.