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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…
Everything important goes to ~/data/ and inside various folders like project/, so all I need to do for backup script is to sync that folder. I don't put anything intentionally under Documents/ as various apps try to put stuff in there to taint the folder layout. Temporary files downloaded just stay at Downloads/ folder unless I need to keep it for a long while and I move it under data/. Random text notes go to Notes…
This is basically why I do in Windows too - I don't use the Documents, Photos folders and the like. I have C:\Data, with subfolders inside for various 'topics', such as a 'Projects', 'Library', 'Cash Flow', 'Home' and 'Misc', as well as a folder for each family member. For media and archival, I have 2x 4TB drives in a RAID 1 array. This contains many thousands of photos, as well as videos and films. I use Seafile to…
├── apps
├── books
├── business
├── courses
├── downloads
├── games
├── media
├── music
├── notes
├── podcasts
├── research
├── src
├── tmp
├── tweets
├── twitch
└── youtube
Source code specifically (the contents of the src/ folder above):
├── ansible
├── contracts
├── courses
├── github
├── legacy
├── scripts
├── sites
└── tmp
- 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/
You forgot the "old desktop (2013)" naming structure. But yeah, that's exactly me.
~/projects/personal/ (any of my stuff)
~/projects/// (work stuff)
~/Dropbox
~/Scratch
~/Journal
~/Applications
That's about it really.
- [smb]/mediadepot/audio/* music and audio podcasts
- [smb]/mediadepot/literature/* ebooks and pdfs
- [smb]/mediadepot/pictures/* pictures
- [smb]/mediadepot/software//* software archives
- [smb]/mediadepot/videos/* videos
- [smb]/personalstudy/* personal junk of all kinds
- [smb]/projects/* software development stuff
- [smb]/temp/* global temp directory
- [smb]/ps2/* PS2 games
“...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. :-)
I'm actually using Johnny decimal now, except that I ended up using 100 buckets instead of 10 because some of the categories simply had too many items in them and they would have overflowed or had no room to grow in them otherwise. It's so nice to have a good system and never doubt where to find something and where to put a new thing. I switched from our previous mess to Johnny decimal by using a python script that p…
~Documents/MSc ~Documents/Projects ~Documents/Documents
the MSc folder goes like that:
~MSc/A/class ----> letter (A, B, or C) is the semester, and then the class (simplified of course)
inside each class the structure is:
~class1/class_material ----> where is the documents (pdfs, slides etc) provided by the instructor and scanned notes if any ~class1/Project(s) ----> where are the projects for the class.
Each project has 2-3 subfolders: ~Project1/src ----> source code (different approaches for the same project go in here in seperate folders) ~Project1/documents ----> reports, presentations etc, and a txt with refereneces to papers, books and websites used. ~Project1/Results ----> if i have to do tests comparing approaches, models etc I keep my results in here In the root folder of each project I keep the project requirments
My /Projects folder has the same approach
My Documents folder, for now is divided in two folders: ebooks and papers, and inside those folders are just bunch of files (with proper filenames, though, so searching is working) --- My Photos folder goes like that:
~Photos/year/month/event
each "event" folder has the raw files and an "exported" folder where the processed photos are. If I do panoramas, there is also an extra folder, called "panoramas": ~event/exported ~event/panoramas --- my Downloads folder is just a temp folder, so there is no need to waste time there. --- My Desktop is always empty (and icons hidden)
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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I'm actually using Johnny decimal now, except that I ended up using 100 buckets instead of 10 because some of the categories simply had too many items in them and they would have overflowed or had no room to grow in them otherwise. It's so nice to have a good system and never doubt where to find something and where to put a new thing. I switched from our previous mess to Johnny decimal by using a python script that p…
That’s amazing to hear. Thank you! I have come across situations where you need more than 10, yes. I plan on addressing it in a future post on the site. If you’re able to share, I’d love to know more about your case. If not, no stress. hello@johnnydecimal.com.