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I've tried over and over to organise them. I've tried various systems. But nothing has really worked.
My current strategy seems promising, so far. I've no doubt it will fail in the end and I will have yet another half organised mess. Then in a few months I'll start again with a new strategy.
One of the biggest issues is categorising. Imagine I have some films. I put each one in a separate directory based on the genre. So, Starwars... sci-fi or fantasy... I say "yes" to both. Maybe it's more one than the other, maybe different people would say it was one over the other. Maybe my opionion would change on different occasions.
You could rely on searching. Searching is good, but you have to know what you want. I could think of whatever film I want and use one of many tools to search by filename. But this doesn't help if I just want to browse. I could search for starwars, but if all my fantasy (or sci-fi) films were all in one place I could browse and I might see Men in Black instead. But what if MiB was in my comedy directory instead. I'd miss it.
So I've never liked having to categorise things. I discovered tagging is great. For my firefox bookmarks I stick all the bookmarks I want to keep in one folder.Then I can tag each bookmark with as many tags as I want. It will be in multiple places while browsing.
I can do the same with my notes, I use Joplin which has notebook, which are like directories and they can be tagged, too.
But files. I want there to be a filesystem that supports native tagging. There is "Tag Spaces" which allows you to tag things, but then they only work in Tag Space and it didn't work well on my laptop. Linux file systems do support "xattr" extended attributes. You can arbitrarily tag however you want. But most software doesn't use it and if you aren't careful then you can accidently lose them when you move files.
I've seen suggestions of hard or soft linking files. So you put it in one place and link it to whereever you want it to be. This way one file could show up in multiple paces. It does add an extra layer of complexity, but I'll give it a go.
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