Ouch, so many files and information!

With TBs of files in your hard disk, how can one person keep track of everything? You can't. LOL!

What you can do is to find a system where you organize the files your way to reduce the access time and especiailly the times you know you have the file but have no way to look thousands of files onde by one.

Forget about the cloud. In my opinion the cloud system is only good when you have a few dozen files to keep and if they are totally unimportant. Remember the celebrities that got hacked? Now imagine your most importante details hacked too.

Your desktop computer might not be the safest place in the world, but has a lot more security than the cloud. Well, banks work with desktops right? Computer security is not perfect against hackers, but it's good enough for your digital life.

Talking about a desktop computer. When you have an Intel i7 or an AMD 8 core computer, with that speed you will never want to remember the cloud again. With these processors and the SSD hard disk you can access anything as fast as you can type or click. No more wating for the disk to load or the cpu to think and process. I think the cloud is out of the equation.

Now how to do organize your information in a way you can reach it when you need it as fast as possible? With most people now having hundreds of thousads of files in the computer, manual selection and organization is out of question. You simply can't do that. Automatic file organization is the key.

Windows 7 and 8 have something called virtual folders. What are they? Simply saved search filters that allow you to search the entire computers for words, file types, date of modification and a little bit more. Withtout these folders you can't work. It takes time to adapt to them but once the technique is mastered, the work is done on auto pilot. You can have a folder just for something, for example, called october pictures (remember do name these pictures with october in the name) and anything you can image. Today it's almost impossible to love without these folders.

Another thing that you will use every day is the search. Windows search is very slow with mechanical drives. With SSD drives the boost in amazing. You can find millions of files almost instantaneously. Windows 7 search is the best search there is. But with Windows 8 search just become the worst you can image. No more fast search, no more a single window just for search. Microsoft did it bad this time. For Windows 8 maybe a Copernic desktop search install will solve the problem.

As for all other kinds of content and info like bookmarks and email, it's really much better to have them all in the Windows search (not Windows 8 of course). Browser search is still too slow to make it worth using for a general search engine.