To organise my music and video collections and save information from surfing the web and the 77 RSS feeds and 160 podcasts I subscribe to, I use a partition which is structured as follows:

  multimedia
    downloads
      torrents
    ebooks
      to read
      to keep
    music
      to select
      to keep
    speech
      to hear
      to keep
    text
    video
      to see
      to keep

The "to keep" directories have subdirectories named after authors, bands, genres, movies and podcasts. The "text" directory is for saved web pages as well as normal text files.