Your neurotic/autistic/weird habits

[Amlux]

I've avoided the hardcore hell of sorting all files into infinitely fine and precise categories, but for much of my history I've had the opposite problem... Have a folder for cute girls and have a few basic categories, like a Touhou folder, but then 1000 files named 1328329320304.jpg and the like lmao. So on my Arch system I'm trying to at least name files something like "Yagokoro-Eirin-23.jpg" for making them minimally easy to find.

[Thricegreat]

Spending hours upon hours finding the best way to hierarchically organize files from the Internet.

This path only leads straight to hell -- Isn't this actually the problem of onthology LMAO (sorry I'm a not a philosopher). Trees are a very rudimentary structure for organizing anything, especially things related to real life. OOP is one example of how this approach fails, even OOP proponents now discourage inheritance. Symlinks in file systems help a little but not nearly enough. It's not just that things tend to fall under multiple categories, but they're also fuzzy and sometimes they belong to categories only to some degree. Maybe this would deserve a whole new thread but in short: I made peace with the fact that organizing stuff into directories makes you wanna kill yourself and so I only do so one a very basic level, then I leave a room for a little bit of controlled chaos and regress to the best organization tool I have found so far: tags (i.e. overlapping sets). Of course I understand this is not how filesystems work, but you can help it with metadata, tags in file names and so on.

BONUS thought: It is funny to study the mess that is the category hierarchy of Wikipedia or Wikimedia Commons. I used to be a little obsessed with this also and studied things like the book categorization systems that libraries use, but I never found anything satisfactory really.

I organise things by the evolutionary history of the world, which is based on my religious beliefs.