recently ive started using the johnny decimal system which has helped with the chaos of my folders/files, and for me it has actually worked, everything is sorted in a very organized and meaningful way according to my own subjectivity. except for media. i tried using calibre for books, picard for music, i dont know what i could use for films/tv shows, but everything requires a lot of manual work, i have to verify the metadata is correct, or in some cases that the release is the correct one, sometimes the author isn’t properly rendered, etc. is there a way to automate this? i know using something like radarr helps when you’re downloading but what i am supposed to do with the files i already have?
I came to believe that, although it has its use, folder structure is largely suboptimal for organizing files and media. Links and tags are way more efficient. That’s why my all purposes storage is an Obsidian vault with only few base folders (see PARA or LYT systems). I can then search or explore the whole vault in many ways.
As for media, they are managed by Kodi. If the file names are explicit enough, the database is automatically generated with titles, dates, authors, actors… from web based data.