Couple caveats that I think should be included: Use this for your own files where no one else has to find anything. Avoid reorganizing other people's files.

Couple caveats that I think should be included: Use this for your own files where no one else has to find anything. Avoid reorganizing other people's files. If you do the organizing, it may make sense to you, but may not for other people. Adding the decimals has the primary benefit of nothing being recognizable from before, so that new brain maps can be made, not horribly and painfully mangled, warped and twisted from the old maps. If you have to navigate one of these systems and you didn't create it, use search and hope files are named well, and hope the creator didn't go overboard with making foldets. Otherwise, welcome to a little hell of clicking into a million empty folders and never being able to find anything. Has anyone mentioned Aristotle yet? His abstraction of categorizability works, but is so obviously wrong once you have to accomplish any practical task. For us, organic folder structure development for as long as possible, or avoiding folders as much as possible is better. Then, some intelligent and pragmatic decision making, and no hard and fast rules. We are human friendly first, where file systems are primarily intended for human navigation.