I see both sides of your experience as valid. On the one hand, as a person who admittedly can be cluttered in real life, there’s something therapeutic and empowering about taming a digital collection into something logical and structured, often to a level of detail others might call me crazy for.

At the same time, it’s gotta be a healthy mix for me, between cataloging and actually enjoying the collection. I look at a perfectly catalogued data set of any sort as a long-term goal, but try to keep it from ever being too time-consuming all at once

I don’t like to overuse the phrase “can’t unsee it,” but it really does apply here