■ 🕑 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.