[zadikian]

If it's just performance, cd ~/Documents && mkdir old && mv ./* old/ (or today's date instead of old). I actually have that layout on one PC.

If real organization is needed, seems like that'd be easier in hindsight than having foresight

[embedding-shape]

So then you have one intentionally slow directory ("old/" in this case) and one fast directory?

Personally I'd categorize stuff, but you do you, there really isn't any wrong way to do it, if it works it works :)

[zadikian]

I meant you mv into old before it gets too big. I've never actually seen a dir get slow like this. Only seen that with programmatic things like making 1M json files.