Well, normally the books I read have less words than your comment and they have also photos inbetween ;) lol
I know exactly what you mean and I do have such folders too. The black swan and the photo of my climbing father for example comes from such an old folder :)
I have a complicated system which is only easy for me. I use Lightroom and Photoshop and I have many different folders for original files, file which need to be edited and then published and already published files, but all in all it comes quite close to your system with hidden old files, but the black swan for example ist such an old file ;)
Cheers and !BEER
