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Re:There’s magic in mess: Why you should embrace a disorderl... by putterson on Friday October 21, 2016 @11:00AM (#12760978)
I found it striking how similar the system that I have settled into is to yours, and also the similarity of the benefits that you ascribed to it. I love having my /home/name/tmp folder and being able to delete everything in it without worry when I find it becoming a bit crowded. I find that it takes care of most things I don't need but there are a lot of small projects and downloaded libraries that sit in my programming projects directory that are more difficult to delete. All in all I find the organization very relaxing and passive. Roughly the buckets I have are: - Downloads - Documents - workspace (programming projects) - tmp
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Re:There’s magic in mess: Why you should embrace a disorderl... by TeMPOraL on Friday October 21, 2016 @12:23PM (#12761718)
The way I do it on both Linux and Windows is: all the downloads go into Downloads folder. I keep the folder sorted by date (newest top) - 90% of the time I'm looking for something recently downloaded, and for the remaining 10%, I usually have an estimate in my head how old the file is, so I can do a visual binary search on the dates quickly. When I need to free up some space on the drive, I resort the folder by size (descending), and start deleting from the largest files down.
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Re:There’s magic in mess: Why you should embrace a disorderl... by Jtsummers on Friday October 21, 2016 @12:41PM (#12761942)
And it just occurred to me that along with sort by date (usually modified), we can do sort by accessed date. Which is now what I'm doing with my downloads folder and probably a few more.
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Re:There’s magic in mess: Why you should embrace a disorderl... by paulryanrogers on Friday October 21, 2016 @05:56PM (#12765244)
Honestly I feel like the downloads folder is something of a waste. Typically the software there is too old by the time I find myself reinstalling.

Perhaps it should be auto purged as things age. Most users probably instinctively move things to be kept elsewhere

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Re:There’s magic in mess: Why you should embrace a disorderl... by TeMPOraL on Friday October 21, 2016 @06:01PM (#12765281)
Software is only a portion of my Downloads folder. It's usually a random collection of pictures, music files, videos, documents, spreadsheets, archives with data, archives with code, etc.
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