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How about a filesystem that just provided tagging as a first class citizen?
There's been a numbmer of those, but I'm fairly certain that you don't use one (or many people for that matter).
How about a filesystem that just provided tagging as a first class citizen?
My blogging engine [1] allows tagging of each post, and after twenty years of entries, I have: * over 5,000 entries * over 3,000 tags And I still have issues finding posts I've known I made via the tags. [1] https://github.com/spc476/mod_blog
* 10/11 notes/
* 10/11 notes/11.01 notes/ (... all my text notes)
+ (I usually use a shortcut / alias of `notes` since it is the most frequently accessed directory)
* 10/11 notes/11.02 onenote/ (... all OneNote docs)
* 10/12 home/
* 10/12 home/12.01 123 MainSt/ (... deed, map,...)
* 10/12 home/12.02 insurance/
* 10/12 home/12.03 HOA payments/
* 10/13 finance/
* 10/13 finance/13.01 paychecks/
* 10/14 tax/
* 10/14 tax/2020/ (... tax by years, this is one place I use year instead of sequential id#)
* ...
* 20-29/21 projectX/ (... current working project)
* 20-29/21 projectX/21.01 src/ (.... this is usually from git)
* 20-29/21 projectX/21.02 assets/
* 20-29/21 projectX/21.03 docs/
* 20-29/22 projectY/ (... side or 2nd project or project I'm planning on working in future )
* 20-29/23 blog/ (... all my blog post source)
* 20-29/23 blog/23.01 siteX/ (... hugo blog post files for siteX)
* ...
* 30-39/31 JSFramework/
* 30-39/32 VideoResource/
* 30-39/33 AudioResource
* 30-39/34 Reference/ (...programming books, doc related to work)
* 30-39/34 Reference/34.01 javascript
* 30-39/34 Reference/34.02 reactjs
* 30-39/34 Reference/34.03 dotnet
* ...
* 40-49/41 tv_movies/
* 40-49/41 tv_movies/41.01 futurama/
* 40-49/41 tv_movies/41.02 trailers/
* 40-49/42 music/
* 40-49/43 os/
* 40-49/43 os/43.01 debian/
* 40-49/43 os/43.02 ubuntu/
* 40-49/43 os/43.03 freebsd/
* 40-49/43 os/43.04 windows/
* 40-49/43 os/43.05 mac/
* 40-49/44 games/
* 40-49/44 games/44.01 DOS/
* 40-49/44 games/44.02 retro/
* 40-49/44 games/44.03 mac/
* 40-49/45 books/ (...books not related to work, ie fiction, non-fiction)
* ...
* 50-59/51 archive/
* 50-59/52 backup1/
* 50-59/52 backup2/
* ...
I can use this to partition type of files I have into separate external disk or flash drives, too. For work, when I'm on the road, I can just have the folder 20/* and 30/* in an external USB drive instead of taking the entire NAS. If I need to escape a burning building, I can just take the small SD card which contains 10/* backup.
It also helps me with backup strategy, as 10/ gets backed up most frequently (ie daily/weekly), while 40/ gets backed up only once in a while.
(EDITED to show example directory)
I assume see also and/or inspired by good the ol' Dewey Decimal System? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dewey_Decimal_classes You probably don't know much about Dewey, he's got a pretty "interesting" life story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvil_Dewey "At the June 2019 conference of the American Library Association the Council voted to remove Dewey's name from its top honor, the Melvil Dewey Medal; the resol…
> He resigned from the American Library Association due to allegations of sexual harassment, racism, and antisemitism in 1905.
How about a filesystem that just provided tagging as a first class citizen?
(I'm the eponymous 'Johnny'.) I don't find tags useful for many of the same reasons that I invented this system. What's the tag for the payroll schedule? Is it 'Payroll'? 'Finance'? Something else? Who manages the tags? Can anyone add one? Tags need managing just as much as -- if not more than -- a well-organised folder structure. Tags aren't just some free magical way to organise stuff ... otherwise I dare say they'…
Well, this was bound to happen one day. This is my site. I guess I’ll read the comments here then go take a bath with a bottle of gin. :-) Edit: yep. As suspected. Let me just say this, if I may: 1. You don’t have to like every idea, but please consider that some people do . 2. I’ve been using this successfully for a decade. I’m using it right now to organise a project. My boss loves me for it, because guess what? We…
This means that every year we get to recategorize the stuff underneath it and we learn as we go. Most of the sub-folders have stayed the same year to year, but some are different. It lets people see what works and what doesn't, and it prevents the cruft of ages to accumulate. Sometimes work bleeds from one year into the next, but if you're starting something new, create it in this year's folder.
Having been the victim of lots of shared folder catastrophes in the past, this simple rule has really worked out well for my team so far.
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It does feel entertaining to read the comments from people who have so obviously never worked for a large (or old) organisation doing an admin related job who think that spotlight or fuzzy search will save them. In a previous job I had to respond to freedom of information requests for a public sector organisation with more than 20,000 employees, which meant deep diving different departments shared drives and shared i…
> good luck finding a system that can search dozens of silo'd shared drives for info in .pdf and .doc files https://www.google.com/search?q=ediscovery+software
Not suggesting it though :P
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It does feel entertaining to read the comments from people who have so obviously never worked for a large (or old) organisation doing an admin related job who think that spotlight or fuzzy search will save them. In a previous job I had to respond to freedom of information requests for a public sector organisation with more than 20,000 employees, which meant deep diving different departments shared drives and shared i…
> good luck finding a system that can search dozens of silo'd shared drives for info in .pdf and .doc files https://www.google.com/search?q=ediscovery+software
Well, this was bound to happen one day. This is my site. I guess I’ll read the comments here then go take a bath with a bottle of gin. :-) Edit: yep. As suspected. Let me just say this, if I may: 1. You don’t have to like every idea, but please consider that some people do . 2. I’ve been using this successfully for a decade. I’m using it right now to organise a project. My boss loves me for it, because guess what? We…
Really great site! Uncluttered and easy to follow. I have one question: is there JD best practice on how to handle file sets that are generated frequently and in large-ish numbers? I’m thinking specifically of camera image files. My current approach is to have a directory per year, and then subdirectories (with a YYYMMDD-subject name) for each distinct shoot (typically between 30 and 50) in that year, together contai…
Yes. This sort of data set already sorts itself pretty well: by date. There’s no need to mess with that.
See also: your music library, if you don’t have iTunes do it for you.
> It didn’t help that the template for the sites was developed from a project lifecycle perspective and had about 70 folders covering every stage from initiating a bid to project shutdown.
Aah, when the PMO tries to be helpful. I see this all the time - a ‘baseline’ set of folders that you’re meant to understand know what to do with but literally nobody does so they just get ignored.
Worse, I frequently see them with numbers at the beginning. Worse even, those numbers just make no sense at all. I’ve recently experienced a repeating pattern which involves folders 001-015 being something that I can’t remember, and then `016 TO BE DELETED` (because this is in a document management system where you can’t actually delete a file).