On every drive, I have a two top level subfolders with a one-character name. One for stuff that I back up, and one for stuff I don't (e.g. Steam Libraries usual

On every drive, I have a two top level subfolders with a one-character name. One for stuff that I back up, and one for stuff I don't (e.g. Steam Libraries usually go in the second one). I'll just give examples of folders you might find on those drives. - /Applications/Audio/Renoise/ - /AppsPortable/Images/Krita/ - /AppsData/SublimeText/ <-- project files go here - /Drop/Downloads/Browser - /Drop/HTTrack/SiteName All "my" stuff (mostly things I made or personal documents, or things I curated for personal use) goes into a /Docs/ directory structure, which is similarly straightforward: - /Docs/Projects/NameOfProject - /Docs/Resources/Icons/Objects/Tech/joystick.png - /Docs/Images/Created/ <- everything I made that's an image but not a photo - /Docs/Images/In/Canon50D/012 <- I just increase that by one each time I dump my CF card, and then take my sweet time to sort that - /Docs/Images/Out/Pub/2023/ <- uploaded RAW photos named [year]-[month]-[day]_[hour]_[minute]-[second] go here, in case of events or vacations I might make a subfolder for them - /Docs/Images/Scanned I also use synthing extensively, so there's a subset of that structure for things I want to have on my phone, too. - SyncThings/Thang/Audio/AudioBooks/ - SyncThings/Thang/Audio/Music/ - SyncThings/Thang/Audio/Talks/ - SyncThings/Thang/keybass.dbx etc. Contacts I keep on a little Baïkal installation, and thanks to DAVx⁵ that means I can edit my phone contacts in Thunderbird, which is so awesome. I don't want to make this post go on forever, but FWIW I made good exsperiences with going overboard in this way: because at this point, I know where any given thing "belongs". Sometimes I even download something, put it "where it belongs", and see it's already there. Of course I also have plenty of unsorted files here and there, but knowing I could sort them rather easily is nice.