Most "native" way of managing files

Hi again! I continue learning to use my iPhone. Now I'm into managing my files in a convenient way. I know the "natural" way for managing files on iOS is app-centered (so each document type is "saved" in the arena belonging to each app).
However, let's imagine you're preparing a presentation about a city you're visiting. Let's say you're visiting Venezia, and you're collecting material for your presentation. Such material is photos, notes, audio clips, and even some pdfs. If you were using a computer, you'll create a "Venezia" folder, and manage all your presentation stuff into such folder. However, on the iPhone... what would be the iOS-way of doing this? I suppose you don't have to go to the photo app for the photos, the note app for the notes, iBooks for the pdfs, and so on, do you?
I suppose there're third party apps for doing this, but I don't want to work in a way opposite to the iOS design.
What would be a good way, fully integrated in the iOS design, of managing files of different types that belong to the same subject?
Thanks!

Apple has always believed they know what's best for you, whether you like it or not.
When they developed iOS, they decided that users did not need access to the underlying file system, and decreed that this would be so until the end of time. This made some sense for iPods and iPhones, which were not meant for general purpose computing, but you've shown that even with those you run into trouble.
This philisophy became totally ludicrous when they came out with the iPad, which is capable of "real work". This is evidenced by the profusion of ad hoc work arounds. The most natural of these link various cloud services, and DropBox has become the lingua franca.
For example, I don't have an Airprint printer, so I have to use a third party printer program. To get around the fact that it's not integrated into the operating system, it's got its own email and web support, but the natural way to use it with other programs is to connect them all DropBox, GoogleDrive, etc, and just pretend *that's* the native file system.
Apple would of course just advise me to throw out my perfectly good printer and buy one with Airprint

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