In a big tree, no tags. It has taken a little while to figure out the shape of my life, but things now fit pretty nicely. I think the work of figuring out the one place where each thing fits is mostly valuable, not overhead. Having a deep tree allows me to incrementally organize files by pushing them partway down toward their final destination when I don't have time.

The biggest current challenge is all the tools that are trying to pull me away from a filesystem. Google Docs has pretty much been a disaster for organization, and I don't use--even for collaboration--unless I absolutely have to. Similarly, Evernote has lost its charm for me. I guess I'm in a minority here, preferring organizing to searching. It gets hard for me to make sense of old documents when they're out of context.

    - Documents
      - 1-Education
      - 2-Teaching
      - 3-Software-Engineer 
        - Unfold-Studio
          - unfold_studio
            - .git
      - 4-PhD
        - Research
          - Active-Projects
            - Text-And-Code
              - Studies
              - Publications
      - 5-Consulting
      - 6-Personal