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@Skyman911 Your system sounds like me. :). I had great intentions of filing all my sheet music, and having it make sense, but I have haphazard binders, piles on my table and pretty much all over the house. I try to pull it all together and reorganize about once a month.
I took several binders and I placed songs I wanted the paper copies for in one binder. But I didn’t really organize alphabetically, by genre, etc. I put many in plastic sleeves which I think makes it so much easier to handle. They take up extra space in binders. I actually started just saving chord sheets on ultimate guitar, and I just pull the, up and put them on auto scroll and play away! Kllll I did keep ukelele in a separate binder. I had separate one for my private lessons and homework. Instructor is great for synopsizing the lesson and also spelling out what my focus for the week should be. I keep TAC tabs saved as pdfs in folders labeled by the 5 days of the week and the focus area (I.e. Monday- Technique; Tuesday – Lick; Wednesday – Scale/Improv; Thursday-Rhythm; Friday – Chord Transitions). I have a cabinet that houses my books. I keep theory together, classical, rock (99.99% of my songs), and ukulele.
My intentions to maintain it were real and geared towards making it simpler. Reality is that it’s burdensome upfront and when updating, but the overall thought is that it is worthwhile in the end. I just have to be committed to updating and filing.