I like your rules and follow them myself, rarely bookmarking or saving images I don't have a specific use for. I need to cleanup my files too. I have a folder called "Stuff" with everything in it, and these subfolders (I'll copy Devac): Articles 2 Brain Turds Education Film GWR Evidence Music Photos Etc Film is movies, music is music and photos are photos. Education is all of the stuff from my undergrad and master's - it's huge, not very tidy and in dire need of cleaning up. GWR Evidence is the stuff from my barefoot record. Brain Turds is the folder for any little bits of writing I've done. (There's not a whole lot in there.) Which leaves us with Articles 1 and Articles 2, a situation that reveals the true lack of organisation in my files. Articles 1 is basically a big folder full of interesting essays, journal articles or books, some of which I've read and some of which I haven't. I've pruned it a few times, but I'm always left with a bunch of stuff I don't want to delete despite completely forgetting that it's there (which is a fairly useful criterion for getting rid of things in general.) I started Articles 2 because I didn't want to have to properly organise the first one. There's a bit of the "shove everything into messy cupboards and boxes" method of tidying at work here. Articles 1
I have two programs for saving bits of writing, Tomboy Notes (I found a windows version) and Zim, both of which catalogue writing in a similar way, and the reason I have both is because, yeah, I didn't want to properly organize the first one.