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Someone had previously shared johnny-decimal, but I have yet to use it to reorganize my files. https://johnnydecimal.com/
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I do the same thing, but I just scan with Fujitsu ScanSnap and dump in a huge folder in Dropbox. They're OCR'ed and named with the date by default, and that's enough that I can basically always find what I want. That said, I rarely need anything in that folder beyond 10-20 documents like passport or birth certificate scans. To the point where I wonder if the scanning is even worth it. Why don't I just toss all that s…
> I rarely need anything in that folder beyond 10-20 documents like passport or birth certificate scans. You trust Dropbox with that sort of thing?
It's actually disgusting, but I'm lazy. A lot of my work tends to be ephemeral stuff, like downloading files and doing some analysis work so I have a folder called ~/scratch/ where I try to mostly put that stuff.
My biggest issue is I'm so lazy I often have throwaway scripts just sitting in git repositories that have no relation to the project that repository is for. It's fun returning to that repository and finding I have a bunch of uncomitted changes for files like "script.py" and "doit.sh"
Someone had previously shared johnny-decimal, but I have yet to use it to reorganize my files. https://johnnydecimal.com/
Interesting. What about customer-specific files... a small business would hope to have more than 10!
[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19327891
[1]https://johnnydecimal.com/concepts/exceptions-to-the-rules/
Someone had previously shared johnny-decimal, but I have yet to use it to reorganize my files. https://johnnydecimal.com/
DON'T KEEP THEM ORGANIZED... USE SEARCH Learn to love Search, but give yourself a manual cheat mode that doesn't take any effort to maintain. I use the application "Hazel" with two tactics, one to clean up Desktop, one to clean up Downloads. For desktop, I use a freshness rule, and then a manual lookup hack. If it's likely this file isn't changing any more, Hazel sweeps it into folder. In downloads, I do freshness, b…
~/Code/ L python/ L project1/ L ... L dotnet/ L web/ L work/ L ... ~/Documents/ L school/ L Spring2019/ L ... L personal/ L work/ That's about all I really access other than Downloads which is a huge mess that gets purged every so often. Anything of lasting value gets moved out of there asap. ~/Documents/ is backed up to iCloud so I can access them anywhere. (Tip: Any directory you don't want to be backed up can be s…
Google Drive Personal for all personal files : photos, tax returns, etc. Only sync files actively touched in last thirty days.
Google Drive Work for all work files : presentations, spreadsheets, contracts. Only sync things I've actually touched in last week.
Github for code projects. 60 Day Minimum. ~/Documents/codeWork
Anything that is not filed within 30 Days > trash.
Admittedly my Google Drive is a bit gnarly, but the search functions are pretty solid.