Albums vs Folders

New user to PSE11. Is it recommended that ALL photos be in albums or is the idea that photos in albums are a subset of the photos in folders? With all the sort and search functionality, I don't understand the benefit of albums.
I name my image folders using a standard naming convention with the date embedded so it makes them rather easy to manage.
Am I missing something here?
Thanks,

Is it recommended that ALL photos be in albums or is the idea that photos in albums are a subset of the photos in folders?
I would say neither is recommended, and in fact I don't think either is a good path forward.
I name my image folders using a standard naming convention with the date embedded so it makes them rather easy to manage.
Am I missing something here?
The main benefit of the Organizer is that it gives you tools that are different than folders, and in my opinion, superior to organizing by folders. Those tools are tags, captions and notes.
What you want to do to get the maximum benefit of the Organizer is to add tags to all of your photos (and optionally captions and notes), and then use those to do your searching, instead of searching by date based folders. A photo can have many many tags, and long strings of text in the captions and notes that enable you to search, whereas a photo can be in only a single folder; and it is very difficult if not impossible to search across folders, and it is very difficult if not impossible to add long strings of text to identify photos if you are using folder organization.

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