■ 🕑 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.