What the world needs is a tag oriented file system or TOFS.
Things don’t have folders, they have tags. A file could have a tag of “recipe” and “gift” and “enemies_list” and a knitting pattern could have a tag of “gift” and “cold”. Both would show up if you searched for “gift.” But you couldn’t do that if everything has to be categorized by folder.
Even the name could be a tag.
But then you have to make a conscious effort to enter a tag. The advantage of using Finder is it searches every document for a search word or phrase.
The only disadvantage is it searches every document for a search word or phrase...