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Re:Digital clutter: Learning to let go and stop hoarding ter... by kitsunesoba on Sunday April 16, 2023 @12:46AM (#35587342)
It would nice if you could somehow deprioritize folders so that the files within them don't show up in the top N results in Spotlight, because yeah it's probably not useful for it to present source files from that one sprawling project I forked and tinkered with a couple years ago.
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Re:Digital clutter: Learning to let go and stop hoarding ter... by leipert on Sunday April 16, 2023 @02:04AM (#35587672)
You can remove folders from spotlight indexing. I do it for all the source code folders.

I’ve also built a small tool to check whether some git repo is in sync with upstream, so it could be deleted: https://gitlab.com/leipert-projects/git-recon

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Re:Digital clutter: Learning to let go and stop hoarding ter... by lh7777 on Sunday April 16, 2023 @02:14AM (#35587709)
When I’m done with a project, I’ve taken to packing up these kinds of files into a disk image. That way, I can access them if I need to, but they don’t show up in search. There’s a risk that the image gets corrupted or isn’t readable on some future OS, but since these aren’t mission critical files, I’m not too worried about that.
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