File Organization Rules

💾 Media

Collections

💾 Media/
- 📘 Books/ — for reading
- 🎮 Games/ — for playing
- 🎵 Music/ — for listening
- 🎬 Videos/ — for watching

Common formats

Type	Format
📘 Book	`title (date) [author] (edition).epub`
💬 Comic	`[date] title [author] (edition).cbz`
🎮 Game	`platform`/`title (year)`/`title (year) (version).bin`
💿 Album	`title (date) [serial]`/`disc-track - song.flac`
🎬 Movie	`title (year)`/`title (year) - edition (encoding).mkv`
📺 Episode	`title (year)`/`season`/`title (year) - season episode - name (encoding).mkv`

📘 Books

💬 Comics

Comic organization

Sub-Categories

💬 Comics/
- ✍️ Collection/ — organized by author
- 🍆 Erotica/ — organized by porn genre
- 🧐 Fan/ — organized by fandom
- ⬅️ Manga/ — right-to-left format
- ⬇️ Webcomics/ — top-to-bottom format
- ➡️ Western/ — left-to-right format

Comic formats

Type	Format
📔 Basic	`title (year)`/`title volume.cbz`
📕 Standard	`[date] title volume [author] (edition).cbz`
📗 Serialized	`[date] title volume (chapters) [publisher (author)] (language) [edition].cbz`
📘 Doujinshi	`[date (event)] title volume (related work) [circle (author)] (language) [source].cbz`
📙 Excerpt	`[date (event)] title volume (excerpted work) [publisher (author)] (language) [source].cbz`

📕 Standard example:

Comics/Manga/Shinsekai yori (2012)/
- [2012-12-07] Shinsekai yori v2 (c05-08) [Kodansha (Oikawa Tooru)] (Japanese) [1st Ed.].cbz

📘 Doujinshi example:

Comics/Fan/Touhou Project/Cat's Works! (2014)/
- [2014-05-11 (RTS11)] Cat's Works! (Touhou Project) [Hinaprin (Ikuta Takanon)] (English) [Cazzeggione].cbz

📙 Excerpt example:

Comics/Erotica/Futanari/Fantasy/AkuMiko (2012)/
- [2012-06] Akumiko (Comic Mujin 2012-06) [Gura Nyuutou] (English) [Crimson Leo + Doujin-Moe.us].cbz

Abbreviations:

v01 means "Volume 1"
c23 means "Chapter 23"
3rd Ed. means "Third Edition"

📕 Fiction

Fiction organization

Sub-Categories

📕 Fiction/

✍️ Collection/ — organized by author
🧐 Fan/ — organized by fandom
📖 Novels/ — long story format
✒️ Poetry/ — verse format
🗣️ Plays/ — scripted drama format
📝 Shorts/ — short story format

Fiction formats

Type	Format
📁 Folder	`title (year) - author/`
📔 Published	`title volume (year) [author] (language) [edition].epub`
📑 Fan Fiction	`[date] title (chapters) (related work) [author] (status) (language) [updated].epub`

📑 Fan Fiction example:

Fiction/Fan/X-Men/
- [2003-03-22] Not Myself (c01-70) (X-Men) [Princess Alexandria] (Complete) [2004-10-09].epub

📚 Non-Fiction

Sub-Categories

Fiction Folder

 Fiction
 ├─ Collection
+│  └─ (Author)
 │
 ├─ Fan
+│  └─ (Work)
-│     └─ title (year) [author]
-│        └─ [published] title [author] (content) [updated].epub
 │
 └─ Original
+   └─ (Genre)

Literature/
- Novels/Title/.../File
- Indie/
  - Fan/Derived Work/.../File
  - Original/Author/.../File

Other/
- Textbooks/Subject/.../File
- Artbooks/Title/.../File
- Guidebooks/Title/.../File
- Magazines/Title/.../File

Files

Book format
- [Date] Title [Author] (Edition).ext
Advanced format
- [Date (Event)] Title Volume (Related Work) [Publisher (Author)] (Language) [Edition].ext

Preferred types:

.cbz for comics.
.epub for literature.

Examples

Books/Comics/General/Manga/Shinsekai yori (2012)/
- [2012-12-07] Shinsekai yori v2 (c05-08) [Kodansha (Oikawa Tooru)] (Japanese) [1st Ed.].cbz
Books/Literature/Indie/Fan/X-Men/
- [2003-03-22] Not Myself (c01-70) (X-Men) [Princess Alexandria] (Complete) [2004-10-09].epub

🎮 Games

Folders

Games/
- Platform/
  - Title (Year)/.../File

Files

Game format
- Title (Region) [Edition].ext
Advanced format
- [Date] Title [Developer] (Region) [Edition].ext

Preferred types:

.zip for games over 1 GB in size
.bin for Cartridge ROMs
.iso for Disc ROMs

🎵 Music

Type	Format
💿 Album	`title (date) [serial]`/`disc-track - song.flac`

🎶 Audio

Sub-Categories

📼 Mixes/ — organized by genre
🎤 Original/ — organized by artist
🎻 Soundtrack/ — organized by work

Audio subfolders

Audio
├─ Original
│  └─ (Artist)
│     └─ (Album)
│        ├─ (Track).flac
│        └─ (Track).lrc
└─ Soundtrack
   └─ (Work)
      └─ (Album)
         ├─ (Track).flac
         └─ (Track).lrc

Filenames

Album folder
- Title [Artist] (Date) [Catalog_#]/
Track file
- Disc_#-Track# - Name.flac

Scores subfolders

Scores
├─ Original
└─ Transcriptions
   └─ (Work)
      └─ (Score).mscz

Filenames

Work folder
- Work/Artist - Title/
Score file
- Title.mscz

🎬 Videos

Folders

Anime/ — Animated
- Adult/Title (Year)/Video.mkv — Porn
- BD-DVD/Title (Year)/Disc.iso — Video Discs
- Movies/Title (Year)/Movie.mkv — Standalone
- Series/Title (Year)/Season #/Episode.mkv — Episodic
Film/ — Live Action
- Adult/ — Porn
  - JAV/Code (Label)/Code-###/Video.mp4 — Japanese Adult Videos
- BD-DVD/Title (Year)/Disc.iso — Video Discs
- Movies/Title (Year)/Movie.mp4 — Standalone
- Series/Title (Year)/Season #/Episode.mp4 — Episodic
Other/ — Categorized
- Adult/Type/Video.mp4 — Porn
- Crime/ — Criminal and Police Activity
- Comedy/ — Comedy Performances
- Educational/ — Documentaries and Education
- Fandom/ — Series-specific short videos
- Fashion/ — People wearing Outfits
- Gaming/ — Gameplay and Reviews
- Graphic/ — NSFL content
- Memes/ — Funny short videos
- Music/ — Musical Performances
- Political/ — Political campaigning & events
- Short Films/ — Small film features
- Sports/ — Sporting events
- Trailers/ — Trailers & Advertisements
- War/ — Military Conflict
- YouTube/ — Assorted videos from specific YouTubers

Files

Movie format
- Title (Year) - Edition (Encoding).ext
- Title (Year) - Edition (Language Resolution Source Video Audio).ext
Episode format
- Title (Year) - Season Episode - Name (Encoding).ext

Images

Sorting

Art goes in Art/
- Art known by Artist goes in Artist/<Artist>/
- Art known by a parodied Series goes in Subject/<Series>
- Art obtained in a sortable format go in Sorted/
Video game art goes in Games/<Title> (<Year>)/
Other image types go in Type/<Image Type>/.

File Names

General image format
- [source] creator - date - subject.ext
Twitter images
- [twitter] username—date—post ##—image id.ext
Pixiv images
- [pixiv] user id_post ##_page # - username - subject.ext
Fanbox images
- fanbox username post id_page #.ext

Shining Force

Audio

Audio/

Doujin - Unofficial works
Drama - Voiced stories
Fandisc - Bonus discs
Game - In-game soundtracks
Music - Disc album soundtracks

Subfolder contents

[YYYY-MM-DD] Album_name [Catalog_#] (Format)/

Disc_#-Track_## - Track_name.flac
Image_## - Description.jpg
Catalog_## - Description.log
Folder.jpg

Example

Audio/
  Drama/
      [2006-01-26] Shining Tears Drama CD Vol. 1 Side Yin [WM-0520~0521] (FLAC+ISO)/
            1-01 - Prologue ~Kioku~ Memories.flac
            2-01 - #06 ~Hyoukai~ Tears.flac
            2-EX - Data Track.iso
            img01 - Cover.jpg
            disc01 - WM-0520.log
            disc02 - WM-0521.log
            Folder.jpg

Overview

 Media
 │
 ├─ Books
 │  ├─ Comics
-│  │  └─ ...  [date] title [author] (edition).cbz
 │  ├─ Fiction
-│  │  └─ ...  title (date) [author] (edition).epub
 │  └─ Non-Fiction
-│     └─ ...  title (date) [author] (edition) [publisher].pdf
 │
 ├─ Games
+│  └─ (Platform)
-│     └─ ...  title (date) (version).bin
 │
 ├─ Music
 │  ├─ Audio
-│  │  └─ ... title [artist] (date) [catalog#]/
-│  │        └─ disc#-track# - name.flac
 │  ├─ Scores
 │  └─ Videos
 │
 └─ Videos
    ├─ Movies
-   │  └─ ... Title (Year) [Edition] (Encoding).ext
    └─ Series
-      └─ ... Title (Year) - Season Episode - Name (Encoding).ext