I've also given a lot of thought to names. It's important that I know instantly what a folder is for - so nothing I don't instantly recognise - and the physical analogies work well for me. They also need the right vibe because that helps me work better. Its a very personal set of preferences.
-Dormouse
That’s an extremely interesting approach. It has echos of an older technique that’s usually referred to as a ‘memory palace,’ where one’s classification of stored information is mentally linked to mnemonic imagery that most often takes the form of rooms and places in a real or imaginary building, or the landmarks found along a familiar walk.
It’s a valuable mental technique worth cultivating, to say nothing of an approach that works equally well when mapped out to external technologies such as outlines, wikis, note tags, text databases, and similar technical innovations.
(P.S. It’s been awhile for me. Nice to see some of the old crew can still be found having interesting discussions on DC.)