Comment by Zababa
4 years ago
I'll be the opposite voice: the file system isn't for precise organisation, it's just for storing. For organisation, the ideal thing to use is tags. Since most file systems don't have tags and using software for that would be a pain, the best way to do this is to list the tags in the file name.
I've always thought that personal files, photos, or any other kind of just needed more connections between them to improve my information retrieval experience. That's how I had become a Zettelkasten evangelist. I believed it would be the cure for the information overload disease of our era.
But life made me use Emacs org-mode more and more, and I'm now in love with tags. Retrieving information has become so easy, especially with org-mode's tags inheritance, that I hardly think making connections between headings or notes is necessary anymore[1]. And I believe that applying tags to filenames (a la Karl Voit [2]) will create the same effect
[1] A Zettelkasten-like system is still unbeatable imo when it comes to ideas repositories, i.e. a second brain you can talk to and get new insights. It's just not that great for personal knowledge management or project management.
[2] https://github.com/novoid/filetags