[johnchristopher]

> The downside of folders is trying to figure out where things belong in the hierarchy, or trying to update that hierarchy to a new standard.

That's why I stick to Documents/{folder1..folder∞} and folders don't have hierarchical sub folders, just contextual folders. Eg: Documents/taxes 2021/{invoices, stuff}, Documents/taxes 2021/, Documents/Cthulluh Roleplaying/{pdf files of characters}, Documents/Covid vaccination certificates,

Yes, it's messy but I don't have the mental burden of a holding a tree in my head or a tagging system.

[Andrex]

I try not to go more than three folders deep (starting from ~). I don't mind a lot of files in a folder, search helps me with that.

[johnchristopher]

My current setup is: Documents, owncloud, Downloads, Dev, Media and tmp. No desktop. At work I have an additional git folder.