Digital Organization

Because I'm still sick, I'm trying to kill my time by organizing my files and backups. I should have known better than to just dump everything in a single folder... Now I'm stuck with hundreds of documents and other unimportant files to try to classify. 

If there is one thing I am learning, I suck at naming my files. What makes this a bigger chore than it is is that I have to open up some files once in a while to check what it's all about. I could have avoided this cumbersome step if a) Windows previews all files, not just images and documents with saved thumbnails and b) if I was better at describing through filenames. 


Right now I'm trying to be punctilious in thinking of a standard nomenclature that I could easily use for file naming.


Did I mention that I hate this?