Media workflow

Years ago I started to sort my photographs into directories that looked like this:

• 2010
  • 2010-05-04 - Some cool event
  • 2010-05-08 - Ennie Birthday

This worked fine for a while.The problem was when both Ennie and I got cell phones (ok, let's be truthful: iPhones) that could take pretty reasonable pictures.At that point we left the world where occasionally you get a spurt of photographs and enter the new reality where photographs are just an ambient thing that just happens.The system where I'm trying to categorize each and every day falls apart.As it was falling apart (for years) it became more and more disorganized. I'm sure you know what that feels like: once you get so far behind the curve it's easy to become hopeless and just throw in the towel.Then you add in things like videos and all hell breaks loose.At this point for the photography it's going to be more year and month and only interesting events getting their own folder. It's something that I think can be self-sustaining. An added bonus is that Lightroom CC even has a pretty good face recognition engine so my photos start to become query able by names as well.The only thing I'm still struggling with is how to deal with video.Video consumes space like it's going out of style.I'm hesitant to plop it in the same directory structure.But then you have the other issue that you don't just have video, but you have other associated assets as well -- like photos and audio for instance.My first go is to make project directories kind of like:

• 2015
  • 2015-05 -Hakko 951 First Look
    • Project file
    • Assets
      • Video
      • Photos
      • Broll

And see how that grows.This will get all the more complex when I have lots of takes and scenes from the trip this summer. Then it becomes a challenge to organize all of those in a way that actively makes sense and is logical.