Ask HN: Do you have a system for organizing your files?

Ask HN: Do you have a system for organizing your files?
2 by x1798DE | 0 comments on Hacker News.
An ocean of ink has been spilled about how to organize ones' notes and to-do lists and repositories, but I have not seen much in the way of a general scheme for how to organize the files on one's computer. I always end up re-inventing the wheel over time, so I end up having a bunch of places on my hard drive with different incarnations of the same folder (~/Documents/Pictures, ~/Pictures/images). I'm interested in whether people out there have a systematic way of organizing their files (bonus points if you've written up the reasons in detail somewhere).