[ale] End of year digital clean up?

[DJ-Pfulio]

On 1/5/21 11:49 AM, Steve Litt via Ale wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Jan 2021 12:49:05 -0500
> DJ-Pfulio via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
> 
>> I've had my list of new-year digital cleanup tasks for 
>> about a decade, but it can always be improved.  
>>
>> What do you do every year to clean up your data, email, photos, 
>> documents, ebooks, backups, retired credentials?
>>
>> How do you find these things later?
> 
> I operate on the assumption that forever and always, spinning rust
> drive space will decrease in price, making it an ever expanding file
> cabinet. So I have no specific day to clean up, but instead delete huge
> files as I find them, and pay particular attention to cache
> directories, deleting everything more than a day old.
> 
> If some day spinning rust is declared "legacy" and therefore price per
> Terabyte increases by a factor of 100, I'll revisit that policy.

So you have 3 HDDs?  Primary, secondary, and off-site backup?
How do you find stuff later? 
Any organization and searching methods used?

How do you handle paper-only stuff?  
Organization and searching?  
Do you scan everything, only important things, nothing?