How do you Organise the Files and Folders on your Computer?

Follow the default XDG folders (downloads, documents, images, video, music etc) and add folders for specific things (one for 3D blender files if you use blender for example).

Music is organised in a folder per album with every song tagged (date, style, artist, album cover) if you want to search a song fast.
Every movies is organised in a folder named "Movie" in your Videos folder.
Documents (work documents and E-Books) are organised in the Documents folder inside a folder with a suitable name ("Book"s for E-books, Tax forms for Tax forms etc).

Nothing is optimal but my organisation is comfy for me.

>>61998559
my download folder is a mess. I need to pay an autistic to make folder by type and arrange shits in them. Right now I dont even know what's in that folder.

>>61998674
How do you deal with the fact that programs or games will completely diregard your folder structure and ruin it?

>>61998674
For my Music folder i do sub folders as artist, then within them I do "year - albumtitle"

>>61998702
On Linux this is not a problem because the folders created in the home directory are hiddens by default

>>61998714
I use Linux yet it is annoying for me that some programs (mostly games) save their configuration in Documents just as they do in windows. The worst case is a game creating a /home folder specifically for itself.

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>>61998559
>Is there an optimal way?
Yes.
Yes there is

>>61998559
using a file system would be a good start

>>61998559
I have a folder called temp where I put everything.

Then once in a blue moon I delete half the stuff and move the rest to a folder that makes sense.

>>61998981
What do you mean

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Images
Image Name = Name/Title - User/Artist - Website/Source
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Music
Artist - Album (Year) (Codec) (Record Label, #Cat)
A-ha - Hunting High And Low (1985) (FLAC) (Warner Bros. Records, 9 25300-2)

(Anything besides an original realese)
Artist - Album (Year) (Codec) (Year - Record Label, #Cat)
A-ha - Hunting High And Low (1985) (FLAC) (1985 - Warner Bros. Records, 32XD-375)

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------SACD------------------------------------------------

Artist - Album (Year) (Source Bit Depth Sample Rate) (Year - Record label, #Cat)

The Doors - The Best Of The Doors (1973) (SACD 24bit 88.2kHz Mch) (2015 - Audio Fidelit, AFZ5 206)

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Notes------------------------------------------------
Songs that are on a CD, USB, SD-Card, or any other storage that is not an audio CD are classifed as web. (Future update, classify release with corresponding source of media.)

(Year) (24bit FLAC) All 24Bit Flac's are "WEB" releases
(Year) (WEB-FLAC) All "WEB" releases are 16bit 44.1kHz

Source of WEB releases
Ken Arai - Parasyte -the maxim- Original Soundtrack (2014) (24bit FLAC) {OTOTOY}
Meishi Smile - Lust (2014) (WEB-FLAC) {bandcamp}

Additional information are enclosed within curly brackets,
{Remastered} {Reissue} {Limited Edition}

porn folder
movies folder
tv show folder
images (4chan shit goes in here too) folder
music folder
documents folder

so hard!