I think the abstraction of files as a tree is rudimentary and broken. The concept of organizing files in folders is too limiting. I think tagging based filesystems would enable much more flexible and better organized files/data.

So I don't think you are the issue, but an old paradigm from fourty years ago, forced upon users of every computer ;)

Is there a program that exists to organize such files? If so I delegate the task. ie documents in paperless, images in immich, etc. Bonus points for the tools that can use embeddings to search locally the context of files.

If its a kind of file set that benefits from snapshotting, often I have them in some sort of location appropriate.

I dont stress too much though, I keep the results of many of my system's find results in a text file I grep through. I worry a lot more about the name of files or their immediate folders rather than where they go.

Tell Claude to generate a Johnny Decimal[1] script for your Downloads folder and go from there.

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[1]: https://johnnydecimal.com

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