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Re: Is your system organized?

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When I was a kid I adopted a simple rule which has served me well. A folder should only contain all folders or all files. This forces one to reclassify until there exists a classification for everything.

YMMV.

Re: Is your system organized?

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post #2

When I was a kid I adopted a simple rule which has served me well. A folder should only contain all folders or all files. This forces one to reclassify until there exists a classification for everything. YMMV.

I actually like this, great tip.

Re: Is your system organized?

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post #2

When I was a kid I adopted a simple rule which has served me well. A folder should only contain all folders or all files. This forces one to reclassify until there exists a classification for everything. YMMV.

I do the same thing - with the extra rule that directory names have their first letter capitalized - and files are always lower-cased.

Re: Is your system organized?

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When I was a kid I adopted a simple rule which has served me well. A folder should only contain all folders or all files. This forces one to reclassify until there exists a classification for everything. YMMV.

Do you have a bunch of folders with one file in them, or a bunch of folders named "other"?

Re: Is your system organized?

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Another thing I took for a friend is to number my folders.

For example, I would have 00_perso 01_projects 00_projecta 00_projectb

Somehow my brain is better at remembering the numbers than searching for a folder name. Using that for a few weeks, I realized that I actually started to organize stuff ore, because it was easy to find them.

Ex : gitconfig would be 00 01 .gitconfig My billing 01 02 02

etc. . .

Starting using that technique ended up making myself organized.