Re:Ask HN: How do you organise your files and folders?
by glup on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @01:05PM
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At this point, I've decided 75%+ of stuff is transitory and doesn't deserve the time to be filed into a hierarchical local file system, so I just leave it all in Downloads on OS X. Github, Overleaf, Google Docs, and email has all the critical stuff. And of course I have full backups for years. This horrifies some people, but has worked well for me for about 5 years.
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Re:Ask HN: How do you organise your files and folders?
by karatestomp on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @01:19PM
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I could really use not a full download-to dialog on every save in my browser, but just a prompt for a very small set of download locations I've defined, possibly filtered by extension (.jpg -> 'photos_to_sort' or 'memes' or 'temp_junk' as my options)
Re:Ask HN: How do you organise your files and folders?
by psexec on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @01:34PM
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https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/save-in/
this functionality is also available in the venerable DTA
Re:Ask HN: How do you organise your files and folders?
by lo_fye on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @04:49PM
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Try using Hazel (macOS-only) to auto-file stuff for you based on whatever naming conventions or file extensions you want. It’s amazing.
Re:Ask HN: How do you organise your files and folders?
by ericpauley on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @01:12PM
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Similar strategy: I treat my desktop as a temporary workspace. Anything transient goes there, and a cron job clears out unused files automatically:
find ~/Desktop/ -atime +3d -maxdepth 1 \( -type d -o -type f \) -exec trash "{}" \;