[al_borland]

About 20 years ago I read a post on LifeHacker about having folders a-z (and one for numbers) at the top level and using that to avoid a never ended list of top level folders.

I set that up and still have it. It’s not my day-to-day management, but it’s my filing system. If I need to find my childhood vaccination records, I go to H/Health/vaccinations.txt

It’s not perfect. I need to remember what I called something. Health vs Medical or having separate sub folders that might live somewhere else… but I just do what makes sense to my brain at the time, and usually that’s where I end up looking later.

I’ve tried looking up more prescriptive systems, and they never work for me, because it works how someone else’s brain works, not mine.

[beryilma]

I have been doing this for more than 20 years and it has been working well for me. I have a Works folder and 26 subfolders under it, each subfolder therein starting with the same letter...