Any tips for organizational best practices?

Hello Community,
I'm an amateur CC user, digital art dllettante and Adobe fangirl, who is trying to delve deeper into the software and learn to work at a more professional level ( or at least some facsimile thereof).
Like lots (I hope) of amateurs, I have a scattered collection of digital image files haphazardly organized, and have grown tired of scrolling through Aperture when I want to find some inadequately-labeled image added at some forgotten date.
The vast usefulness of Bridge is obvious. There is so much that can be done -- when one knows how -- that I'm overwhelmed and intimidated by it.
There are likely some optimal ways of using it that are obvious to the pros, but that an amateur might not realize the value of. I knos this myriad of options is here because professionals find them useful for specific reasons, but I'm too ignorant to realize the why's and wherefore's.
I'd like to find some resources that address the optimal ways of organizing with Bridge, so I don't spend hours assigning keywords and creating galleries and collections that will turn out to be completely bassackwards.
Does anyone know of any books, tutorials, etc that cover How to (Effectively) use Bridge? Not as in, "here's how to find the menu that will allow you to do x,y,z" but as in, "Here's why it's a good idea to do x,y,z rather than a, b, c"?
Thanks for any advice!

You might want to look into the books and videos by Peter Krogh, a recognized expert in organizing digital photos (DAM or Digital Asset Management for photographers). Most of the materials out there have to do with Lightroom, but you should be able to recognize enough of the features that also appear in Bridge and Aperture. The basic principles of photo tagging and organization are the same no matter what software you use to do it. Since you mentioned Aperture, you should also look into its organizational features because chances are it can do a lot of it as well or better than Bridge.
Link to: Peter Krogh's recent videos and books

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