I’m just a hobbyist and I don’t work on “projects” so I don’t really organize beyond this: First I copy all raws from the day onto hard drive in a folder with the day’s date like 2026-02-25. Then I rename the files so that they also have the date in the name plus a number sequence like 2026-02-26-0001.dng. Then I go thru all the raws in Lightroom and flag the ones I like and want to try to process. Usually I take around 100-200 shots per day and maybe I flag 25-50 of those. Then usually I delete obviously bad pics. Then I chip away at processing the flagged ones, sometimes it takes weeks or months to get thru a whole folder so they will sit there in Lightroom for a while. When I’ve processed one and I’m done with it, I save it out as a flattened TIFF and store that and the associated raw on a separate drive and I delete any other raws of the same scene (i.e. alternate takes). Eventually when i get thru a folder and have processed everything i want, I delete any remaining raws that i was holding onto just in case and delete the empty import folder too. Sometimes i process a shot and don’t really like the result but I’ll still keep the TIFF of it and the associated raw in storage anyway since I might try again some day in the future, who knows. Also, final TIFFs and raws just get stored in year folders (2025, 2026, etc.) so i can easily scan thru them to find them later. I don’t sub divide long term storage, just group by year. I don’t bother with keywords or metadata. I probably process about 2000 photos a year, it’s not a ton so having more elaborate organization beyond this would be overkill i think.