from, keep, subjects

Differences is about how to organise subfolders.

• from: organise subfolders by source: whom/where the file is sent from.
• keep: organise subfolders by our own category or topic.
• subjects: somewhat between from and keep.
• It is topic but based upon source and not directly bound to people/place.
• Similar to ‘from’, it is not kept selectively (we really want to keep) but rather for possible use later.
• For topical folder possibly mixes both what we create or want to keep, as well as those (from other ones) related to or associated with the case.

One fact is that ‘subjects’ was defined before others.  So another implementation can be that only ‘from’ and ‘keep’ are used, no ‘subjects’.

• keep: what we really want to keep, usually organise by class (category, group) and then item (subject, topic).
• from: what we are not as selective as keep, rather have for just in case.  Same organising, usually by a class level first and then item (still better based upon source) level.

Separating between ‘keep’ & ‘from’ helps when we archive or migrate data, as those in ‘keep’ are important whereas ones in ‘from’ are not.

One possible criteria is: do we have own files there?: i.e., we involve and edit/update some files.  Such would not be inside from folder.