■ 🕑 3. 
│  if it's just your own computer, the goal is to organize so that you can
│  access what you need easily. under-categorization makes finding the
│  right thing difficult; over-categorization makes finding the right thing
│  tedious.
│  
│  ~/projects/programming/utilities/c/actual_project
│  vs
│  ~/projects/actual_project
│  
│  only sub-categorize whenever it's actually warranted, otherwise you are
│  just adding extra access and organization time. for having fun on
│  computers, i have ~/fun which i use as a sandbox and then send elsewhere
│  or delete the stuff when it's unwieldy. generally, music can be
│  organized like ~/music/genre/album/song.flac
│  
│  as for calendars and such, it is easier to plan less so your life isn't
│  needlessly complicated.
│   
└─■ 🕑 5. 
    I use MusicBrainz Picard to organize all my music in the form
    ~/Music/Insane Clown Posse/[1997] The Great Milenko/04 - Piggy Pie.mp3
    
    and tinyMediaManager to sort shows and movies like
    ~/Videos/tv/Sorairo Utility(2025)/Season 1/Sorairo Utility - S01E06 - Special Round.mkv
    
    using special software to consistently name/sort content saves a lot of
    mental bandwidth, and has the bonus feature of being friendly with
    media servers. I used to try and rename all the random stuff I pulled
    off torrent sites and it just drove me crazy... 
    
    In my ~/projects/ , sorting chronologically gives me plenty of context
    but keeping ~/projects/_index.txt is really helpful in case I forget.
    
    Too bad that "tagging" isn't more of a thing in native filesystem tools,
    we are stuck with trees I think. For stuff like images I prefer boorus
    but on-disk I try to go for broad categories and give "tags" to the 
    filename so I can search that way. Not very satisfying.