Ask HN: How do you organise your files and folders?

Post by frank2 » Sun, Jun 07, 2020, 8:41 PM UTC

sneak wrote: post #164

tomp wrote: post #33

First thing to do, is to create a new "homedir" inside the OS-provided homedir. I want my homedir to be immediately backup-able, and unfortunately most OSs spam the system homedir with various nonsense, e.g. applications (on Mac, Chrome installs (or used to) in `~/.ApplicationData`, on Linux, there's various package managers' binary caches, ...). I used to name this `home` but next time I'll name it `my`, less confus…

There’s stuff in the normal homedir you want to back up. Better to maintain an exclude list: https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/hacks/src/branch/master/osxbackup/... https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/hacks/src/branch/master/osxbackup/...

Has it ever occurred to you that keeping your stuff backed up should be easier than it is?

Post by christiangenco » Fri, Jun 12, 2020, 7:53 PM UTC

sneak wrote: post #155

acidburnNSA wrote: post #63

Photos: In folders named "YYYY/MM.N Descriptive event title" like "2019/05.1 Birdwalk with Stephanie". This really helps me find things later. Technical library: Academic Topic/subtopic/ then pdf title Music: I use beets now, which imports and organizes everything Household: Accounts folder, Mortgage folder, Appliances folder with subfolders for each appliance containing manuals, photos, and maintenance info. Systems…

Recommend MM.0N, or better yet, YYYY/YYYY-MM-NN. Zero padding months means they will sort properly, and not jan oct nov dec feb Putting the year in the sub folder means they can be moved around/back/out (or zipped) without losing important metadata.

YYYY-MM-NN, or ISO-8601, is objectively the best date format[1].

1. https://xkcd.com/1179/

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