Organizing photos on the computer

I can't say that I label or tag them, but I do organize in folders like this:
2014
2-28 Janie birthday party
4-15 family dinner

Etc. it makes it easy for me to find what I need. I keep a list of LO's that I want to complete and mark them off as I go.

I have it broken down by year, by month, and by day. Each (year, month, day) have their own folder.

 So, it's like:

2014>August>14AUG2014

I'm kind of anal about digital photo organization because otherwise I'd  never be able to find my pics.

I use iPhoto so I organise by year and event. I also have 'smart' albums which work like tags across albums i.e. all photos with a certain location or person etc.

I'm frequently the odd-one-out on these threads, because in general I don't organise by date. Not that I think there's anything wrong with that, but it just doesn't work for me. I'm hopeless at remembering when things happened.

My top level folders are the main categories I use: Days Out, Vacations, Weddings, Other Celebrations, Cats, House & Garden, Daily Life.

Those each then have subfolders depending on how I use them. So if I'm looking for wedding photos I'm always thinking about whose wedding it was, so the folders are named that way + the date e.g. Anna & Mark - Jun 2012. Similarly if I'm looking for vacation photos I always think of where we went not when (often can't remember that!) so that's how I name them, again I do include the date but that's not the primary driver, eg New Zealand - 2007

Other celebrations folders are always in the format: Event Type (birthday, Christmas etc) - Name (if specific to a person) - Date

Cats and Daily Life are different - those I do use folders by date as there's no other obvious sorting method.

My photo software has face recognition and I try to keep up to date with labelling any new people, so I can easily find all photos with a specific person in.

My main point is, it's just the same as organising scrapbook supplies to me - figure out how you choose what you want, and set up your organisation to fit.

I file by date

so photos taken today would be in a folder labelled 2014_08_14 Description

where description tells me what they are or what occasion/event Christmas Day, Annabelle Birthday, Cats, First Day of School etc...

If I have multiple batches for the same day - they get the same date but different descriptions.

Each year is combined in a bigger folder so all of 2014 are in a folder labelled 2014 (actually the current year is 1_2014 so it sorts first - I rename on New Years Day back to 2014)

I wish!!!

Mine are roughly organized by year and date, but I have two cameras and each labels the date differently, if i forget to fix it each time they are not always in order. Plus I had a memory card get corrupted and I used a card reader to get my photos and that duplicated a lot. So yes, I need some help too, and the time to organize them all!