> Similarly, she is very organized with her paper files, I just throw mine into a box. In the rare event I need something (eg when doing taxes) I don't mind scanning through the whole mess. Seems like a better strategy than making each "write" costly (neatly organizing) since writes are frequent and reads are rare.
This is why I have given up trying to organise my downloaded papers and books by subject. It's faster to search through them when I have a term in mind.
This reminds me of the days before "Downloads" folders were provided by OSes for use by browsers, and one would need to select a destination for every file at download time. I think macOS got it right with the "stack" widget (truncated listing of the Downloads folder sorted by date).
This is why I have given up trying to organise my downloaded papers and books by subject. It's faster to search through them when I have a term in mind.