Pretty much any system you had for paper copies can be done electronically. I use a system based on the four color paper filling system (by Mary Hill I think). As such, my folders center around people not document or source types, and are of the form FirstMLast_DOB. My people folders contain documents on family units in that case. At the root level I keep four surname folders for each of my four grandparents and another set of four surname folders for the same surnames prefaced with "^Inbox_". Inbox is waiting for me to process into Legacy and/or sort to the proper places in the primary surname folders. All direct line ancestor folders are in the proper surname folder in the FirstMLast_DOB format. Any collaterals get FirstMLast_DOB folders nested under the proper direct line ancestors. This structure can be nested as far as you desire - just depends on how many cousins removed you want to keep tabs on. There's plenty of info online about the four color system, so I'll not go into the nitty gritty here.
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