What are your goals for this system? Quick inserts or quick retrieval? Perfection or good enough? How important is it to you, and how much work are you willing

What are your goals for this system? Quick inserts or quick retrieval? Perfection or good enough? How important is it to you, and how much work are you willing to put into it? It's tempting to design the perfect system for an archivist, but you might realise that it's too much maintenance for a regular guy who has a life. Personally, I put my photos on a timeline, and the rest in a reasonable folder structure. That's about it.