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> Currently I just have folders for high level topics like Media, Finance, Projects, etc. Why Media? Not enough files, or do you have just one mediatype? > I am finding my current nested folder structure sub-optimal. Add more subfolders and granularity. I organize my files by purpose, and then go deeper. My root is called "Data", and each subfolder is a general category. For example, for media I have "Pictures", "Audio", "Video". For documents I "Documents" and "EBooks", "Knowledge Base". For Software I have "Apps", "Code", "Software", "Docker", "VirtualEnv". For configs I have "Config" and "Config NoGit" (for configs containing binary data, not suitable for git). And each of them has more subfolders. Audio has for example "Audiobooks", "Music", "Podcasts" and "Sounds" (which are short sound-clips). "Code" is just a collection of git-repots with sourcecode. While "Apps" is full of different Subfolders like "Appimages" and "bin", where I store AppImages and binaries of apps I use. But I also have "Firefox" and "Thunderbird" for a local extracted installation of those. "Software" on the other side contains archives and install-files for software, but also roms, and other 'dead' archived files. And "Docker" is full with subfolders with data-dirs for the docker-containers I use. "Documents" contains subfolders for each company I have documents from, while "EBooks" is full of subfolders with libs from Calibre for Ebooks (meaning commercialized documents, which I can find in a database). > * Finding files becomes difficult I don't really have this problem, because everything has an obvious place, but I've developed and fine-tuned this over the course of nearly 30 years. The big task is always to figure out what is the obvious to you, and how does it work with the constraints you have. What worked today, might not work tomorrow, or in 10 years. You should be willing to adapt and fine-tune your organization every some years. > Confusion when there is ambiguity: e.g. does my eye doctor's receipt belong under Receipts or Health? What is its purpose? It's a receipt, so it should be with receipts. If you don't have a folder for receipts, you could maintain a folder dedicated to your doctor. If you do not have enough files related to you doctor, I would think Finances has a more obvious purpose than Health. You should try to replicate your train of thought when you will search this file. So you need to be somewhat flexible in your organization, |