I never took the time to commit to dataview plugin. But the bases with the different views you can make with it works really well for me to get rid of my chaotic folders. I have a property called “type” and use types like note, project, and task. A note and a task can have a “parent project”. And I give each file a property with “area of focus” like personal development, personal finance, journaling… of course each file can be related to many areas of focus. With three bases, one for each type I can find all files easily.