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Save 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.
~/dev # git repositories, unfiled.
~/Downloads # ... everything else
I would organize things differently but I've always been unsatisfied with having to reify some arbitrary subset of metadata about each file into a directory structure. It might seem reasonable to have photos in directories by YYYY/MM/DD but sometimes I want all photos that were taken in a particular location or that have a certain person in them.
I have had no fewer than four aborted attempts to start using camlistore^W perkeep. For some reason it just doesn't stick and I end up going back to the "... everything else" directory. The bit that always gets me is the interface between the object storage world and the posix world (where all my apps / editors live).
Internally, google has a really generic File API that abstracts over a plethora of internal storage systems. Public examples of those storage systems include things like GFS and Chubby (though Chubby support got removed IIRC because enough people didn't understand that they shoudn't use it as a generic storage system -- imagine FUSE-mounting a zookeeper subfolder as your ~/Downloads directory)). So if you're writing internal code, you just get this interface to access "file"s in a mostly-implementation-agnostic way. I don't know how many internal projects use regular POSIX files/directories, but it's probably fewer than you'd think.
For better or for worse, the open source community will never rally around a "file" interface that isn't POSIX-ish (directories and files), at least not on the desktop. A while back I got excited about filepicker.io (apparently rebranded as filestack since the last time I looked at it), because I'd love for there to be some layer (that isn't defined by Apple/Google), pluggable / extensible, that would allow me to organize files in a way that makes sense to me.
Save 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.
>> surely not Dewey Decimal? Close. https://johnnydecimal.com/ Rather, I'd like to do implement this. I have my own homegrown system, with too many idiosyncrasies to share.
Save 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.
Sometimes I like to walk the Inception tree and reminisce.
I don't know when or how it became a tree, but over the years a few "Inception_", "Inception2", and "zzzInception"s managed to sneak in.
...Archive is huge. But its a great visual separator.
10.TASKS - Any work I do for a specific person that can be completed in a week
20.PROJECTS - Multiple related tasks or tasks that have transmogrified into a full-blown project
30.MEDIA - Says what it does on the tin
40.ORGANIZATIONS - Different groups I've joined
X0.CORE - Private or important to me alone
X1.PRIMARY - Important to me and I'm responsible for it
X2.SECONDARY - I am responsible for some of the work but it's not important to me
X3.GENERAL - Everything else that I still need to be aware of
X9.ARCHIVE - Everything that I'm to afraid to delete even though it's irrelevant
00.INFO/00.2019 JOURNAL/
00.INFO/00.2020 JOURNAL/
10.TASKS/11.2020 PRIMARY TASKS/20200603 JS 401(k) Rate Report.xlsx
20.PROJECTS/21.2020 PRIMARY PROJECTS/202006 FY 2020 401(k) NDT/
40.GROUPS/41.Eberron Campaign/20200531 Campaign Notes.md
I probably overthought it but it makes finding things pretty straightforward.
Save 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.
everything in my desktop and downloads dir is automatically deleted after 30 days. So either it's properly organized because it's needed long term or goes away.
Save 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.