Re:Ask HN: How you manage files on your computer?
by rayalez on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @10:58PM
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Most of my files are in ~/projects, in folders by project name. Projects are structured according to conventions of the tech Im using. Most of the time it's project/server, project/client, project/<config-files>.
General advice is to try to keep it as "flat" as possible, deeply nested folders quickly become inconvenient.
I have an assets folder where I keep everything I may need organized by type - images, textures, references, screenshots, etc.
Then there's a temp folder for quick experiments and one-off scripts.
There's library folder where I keep my books, audiobooks, video courses(organized by subject).
And that's about it. Also there's a lot of the mess in Downloads folder, I let it remain unstructured, I just delete the most space-consuming files from time to time.
General advice is to try to keep it as "flat" as possible, deeply nested folders quickly become inconvenient.
I have an assets folder where I keep everything I may need organized by type - images, textures, references, screenshots, etc.
Then there's a temp folder for quick experiments and one-off scripts.
There's library folder where I keep my books, audiobooks, video courses(organized by subject).
And that's about it. Also there's a lot of the mess in Downloads folder, I let it remain unstructured, I just delete the most space-consuming files from time to time.