Others have talked about people being "searchers" or "filers" when it comes to e-mail. I think the same thing applies to hard drive organization, and I'm definitely a searcher. I don't have much in the way of organization in my folders short of basic overarching functional categories (Documents, Pictures, Rails, etc). Right now my Documents folder has 365 items in it and absolutely no canonical organization strategy. However, it rarely takes me more than a few seconds to find what I'm looking for at any given point. The secret? I just sort my files by date.
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