yea, something like that.

for example, I'll sort out all of my hard/heavy sounding kick drums, put em in a folder, and use automator (mac only) to batch rename them to BD_hrdhvy_0001 (and so on)

If you put a short description in the file name, it makes it really easy. of course sorting out thousands of samples can be a ****in pain, but it pays off to be organised.