Designing better file organization around tags, not hierarchies (2017)

Re:Designing better file organization around tags, not hiera... by johnchristopher on Sunday November 07, 2021 @03:45PM (#29143351)

> The downside of folders is trying to figure out where things belong in the hierarchy, or trying to update that hierarchy to a new standard.

That's why I stick to Documents/{folder1..folder∞} and folders don't have hierarchical sub folders, just contextual folders. Eg: Documents/taxes 2021/{invoices, stuff}, Documents/taxes 2021/, Documents/Cthulluh Roleplaying/{pdf files of characters}, Documents/Covid vaccination certificates,

Yes, it's messy but I don't have the mental burden of a holding a tree in my head or a tagging system.

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Re:Designing better file organization around tags, not hiera... by Andrex on Sunday November 07, 2021 @05:27PM (#29144162)

I try not to go more than three folders deep (starting from ~). I don't mind a lot of files in a folder, search helps me with that.

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Re:Designing better file organization around tags, not hiera... by johnchristopher on Sunday November 07, 2021 @05:54PM (#29144370)

My current setup is: Documents, owncloud, Downloads, Dev, Media and tmp. No desktop. At work I have an additional git folder.

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