oldMohawk, you are more disciplined than most! Particularly with digital photography it is SO easy to do on your computer.
I remember in 1981 for my work we had a group of us to select a CAD, computer aided design and analysis system. As the engineer leader we worked with NASA, Boding, McDonald Douglas, IBM, DEC and about 3 or 4 others. The theme to me from all was “get your file management right” We had a couple of mis steps but did get it pretty right.
I am still working on the files I took almost 4 years ago for our 50th River cruise. Thank goodness the date/tine is on each image!