~/Other People # containing one directory for every person; synced to Nextcloud
~/Documents # most of my personal stuff; synced to Nextcloud
~/Downloads # symlink to ~/Local/Downloads
~/Local # Everything that is unimportant
~/Projects # containing one git repository per project
~/Skripts # various scripts I use; synced to Nextcloud
Ask HN: How do you organise your files and folders?
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Re: Ask HN: How do you organise your files and folders?
#82This is related to videos only: I wanted a way to browse a video collection, quickly search, and preview screenshots before viewing; also wanted to browse external hard drive without connecting it. So I created Video Hub App https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App - MIT open source https://videohubapp.com/ - $3.50 minimum price but $3.50 of every sale goes to the cost-effective Against Malaria Foundation
Not sure how you'd do it, but it would be really interesting to see an analysis of how the $3.50 going to the Against Malaria Foundation affects people's choice about whether to pay more.
The idea of someone looking at it and thinking "well, I'm already paying $3.50 that goes to a good cause, may as well tack on another few bucks for the developer" seems like it would make sense, but I wonder if that would actually show up as prevalent.
Re: Ask HN: How do you organise your files and folders?
#83I try to make sure every name is clever enough to make me hate myself but also appreciate my wit when I try to find it in the future. Versioning is achieved by banging on the keyboard when saving the file, it's easy to tell how recent something is by the length of the 'asdljkhaoi' appended to the filename. Every once in a while I throw everything into a folder called "backup" and start fresh. I believe they go 8 deep…
Either I'm just lazy, or all file management/organization converges on this method. Probably I'm just lazy.
Re: Ask HN: How do you organise your files and folders?
#84Save files to my desktop. When it gets too messy, I throw everything in a folder called "Cleanup". Repeat. When it gets messy again, I rename the Cleanup folder to Cleanup_, then throw that and everything else in a new folder called "Cleanup".
I'm about 7 deep at the moment.
Re: Ask HN: How do you organise your files and folders?
#85Save files to my desktop. When it gets too messy, I throw everything in a folder called "Cleanup". Repeat. When it gets messy again, I rename the Cleanup folder to Cleanup_ , then throw that and everything else in a new folder called "Cleanup". I'm about 7 deep at the moment.
Mood, right now.
Re: Ask HN: How do you organise your files and folders?
#86I don't. I just have one big directory where I dump things and make folders ad hoc. If I need something I just search with Spotlight
Re: Ask HN: How do you organise your files and folders?
#87Save files to my desktop. When it gets too messy, I throw everything in a folder called "Cleanup". Repeat. When it gets messy again, I rename the Cleanup folder to Cleanup_ , then throw that and everything else in a new folder called "Cleanup". I'm about 7 deep at the moment.
Sounds suspiciously like my /home//tmp/ directory.
Every few years, throw a wobbly and delete a few layers.
Re: Ask HN: How do you organise your files and folders?
#88incidentally i think that all OSes get the defaults wrong. People don't organize split their lives by videos or pdfs, but by Project. Ideally $HOME should contain a directory for each project and nothing else. Our memory works well with a timeline, it sucks at remembering things in arbitrary tree structures.
We are also good at spatial 2d memory, but no UI has taken advantage of that
Re: Ask HN: How do you organise your files and folders?
#89Save files to my desktop. When it gets too messy, I throw everything in a folder called "Cleanup". Repeat. When it gets messy again, I rename the Cleanup folder to Cleanup_ , then throw that and everything else in a new folder called "Cleanup". I'm about 7 deep at the moment.
Sounds suspiciously like my /home/ /tmp/ directory. Every few years, throw a wobbly and delete a few layers.
That's exactly it, I just use it as a visual working directory for pdfs, memes, text files w/ credentials, you know...
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Re: Ask HN: How do you organise your files and folders?
#90git-annex. I love this tool - it allows you to have a single virtual gigantic git repository with your entire life inside it. I basically dump everything there in folders and thanks to git-annex it is still manageable.