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Re: Ask HN: How do you organise your hard drive?

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Post by dcsan »

jason_slack wrote: post #73
owaislone wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

- Desktop has the same fate this ^. Have a CLI tool that takes everything from the desktop and puts it in ~/Desktop/cleaned/ - ~tools/dotfiles/ hosts all dotfiles with a Makefile that sets everything up - ~tools/ - contains mostly useful utilities and scripts like fonts, vpn configs, terminal color schemes, config patches to apply to `/etc/` after fresh install etc. - ~Projects/ / for paid work projects - ~Projects/…

+1 for Playground/ I was just trying to decide where to put some experiments I was working on and Tests/ just didn't look right :-)

I put 'em in ~/rad Research and Development

Re: Ask HN: How do you organise your hard drive?

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Post by Insanity »

As I grow older, I find I have less and less 'random' stuff on my machine.

I have a two main folders:

/Development/Code/{language}

/Development/Tool/{tool}

Where the tool can be IntelliJ / vim or tmux config and other programming related files.

Apart from those, downloads do land in /Downloads and I keep that more or less clean.

/Documents holds docs.. most of this is text files for a Spanish course I am taking.

My projects fit under a language in /Development/Code/{language}/{project} so if I need any documents for the project I will make a subdir in the project folder, to keep the files close to the code.

Re: Ask HN: How do you organise your hard drive?

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Post by chiefalchemist »

owaislone wrote: post #71
amenghra wrote: post #30

- bunch of random files in ~/Desktop/ - more random files in ~/Desktop/old/ - more more random files in ~/Desktop/old/old/... - real stuff in ~/dev and ~/Site/ - a mix of important and unimportant files in ~/Downloads/

- Desktop has the same fate this ^. Have a CLI tool that takes everything from the desktop and puts it in ~/Desktop/cleaned/ - ~tools/dotfiles/ hosts all dotfiles with a Makefile that sets everything up - ~tools/ - contains mostly useful utilities and scripts like fonts, vpn configs, terminal color schemes, config patches to apply to `/etc/` after fresh install etc. - ~Projects/ / for paid work projects - ~Projects/…

To be consistent, I treat myself as a client and follow all the same rules. But I also give the important ones their own "brand" name. It's a pseudo "exit" plan. That is, I could "sell" to someone else.

The gist is, doing my own projects differently took away more then it helped.

Re: Ask HN: How do you organise your hard drive?

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Post by bschne »

gbear605 wrote: post #32
jen729w wrote: post #20

“...surely not Dewey Decimal?” Close! Johnny.Decimal. https://johnnydecimal.com I’m Johnny. Feedback much appreciated, I’m working like a busy little bee on the site as we speak. Should have a show HN app ready in a couple of months, but I’m learning JS/React as I go so it’s taking time. :-)

One issue that I see arising is the interaction with emails between your system and other Johnny Decimal systems. Say I’m running a team at the company I work at and my team uses this system jointly. Another team also uses it. I email them with an email labeled with a decimal number, and suddenly their system has items out of order.

I use MS outlook at work and you can actually open incoming emails, edit the subject line and save it, used this a few times as a quick way to tag my emails on what needs to be done with them, e.g.:

- [FOLLOW UP] Lorem ipsum dolor...

- [ASK MICHAEL] Lorem ipsum dolor...

- [INCLUDE IN PROPOSAL] Lorem ipsum dolor...

Re: Ask HN: How do you organise your hard drive?

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Post by shanev »

omeid2 wrote: post #80

Using domain names and symbolic links. Seriously. github.com/omeid/upower-notify omeid.net/family/photos omeid.net/friends/joe/2018-royal-national-park-hike -> omeid.me/hikes/2018/royal-national-park omeid.me/hikes/2018/royal-national-park -> omeid.me/hikes/royal-national-park/2018 omeid.me/blog omeid.me/id some-company-i-work-for.com/projects/alpha-transit some-company-i-work-for.com/legal/contracts -> omeid.me/cont…

I started this route after being influenced by GOPATH. Can’t imagine anything else now.

Re: Ask HN: How do you organise your hard drive?

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Post by noio »

rcarmo wrote: post #78

I run all my computers in roughly the same way, be they Mac or Windows (although I don’t have Dropbox on my Windows machines, and OneDrive for Business runs only on my work machines): - Everything goes into a cloud-backed folder (even git repos) - I follow a Mac-like hierarchy on all services (Documents, Development, Library, Pictures, etc.) - Inside each top-level folder, I have subfolders for each context (Personal…

This is pretty much my system too. Including the YY(YY)MMDD naming, even for folders.

Only except keeping all the repos inside Dropbox, I regularly rsync my working folders to Dropbox (to prevent Dropbox from constantly reindexing and eating my CPU).

Re: Ask HN: How do you organise your hard drive?

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Post by w1nt3rmu4e »

If you happen to be fishing for app ideas, here's one I'd pay $50 for:

An app that controls `~/Downloads` and automatically organizes (somehow), tracks usage and schedules files for deletion.

Once a week I'd like to see a dialog listing files likely to be unwanted, info about how many times they've been accessed, where they came from, etc. With a simple, one button, 'trash them all'.

The idea would be to optimize sets of files so they're more likely to be 'all trashed' because they aren't useful anymore, while minimizing situations where you want to trash all but a few and have to spend time managing that.

Not sure what the heuristic would be.

Re: Ask HN: How do you organise your hard drive?

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Post by DanielBMarkham »

Hard drive: nothing established yet. File system: since I use file names to browse for stuff I've saved, and since the most common thing I can remember is when I created them, I name beginning with datestamp, then title, then people affected. Projects: this is a much more interesting question than can be addressed here.

Re: Ask HN: How do you organise your hard drive?

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Post by laumars »

w1nt3rmu4e wrote: post #88

If you happen to be fishing for app ideas, here's one I'd pay $50 for: An app that controls `~/Downloads` and automatically organizes (somehow), tracks usage and schedules files for deletion. Once a week I'd like to see a dialog listing files likely to be unwanted, info about how many times they've been accessed, where they came from, etc. With a simple, one button, 'trash them all'. The idea would be to optimize set…

One of the biggest regressions in modern browsers is how they all automatically download to the Downloads folder. I really miss the dialogue you used to get where you’d get asked where you’d want to save the file (im aware you still get that if you right click and go “save as” but that’s not always possible with some sites).
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