[nathanmcrae]

I find that using Everything search (https://www.voidtools.com/) makes me use the filesystem more like a tagging system. I still name files and directories meaningfully, but I don't worry about the hierarchy at all. Then when I want to get something, I just search (parts of) the terms I want and see the matching paths instantly.

Using the filesystem hierarchically now feels painfully slow and awkward.

[_dain_]

I do this with fd and ripgrep, which also lets me do full-text search through the files themselves. My filesystem has become much flatter and coarser-grained; just a few very large categories.