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Is your system organized?

Is your system organized? Do you have all of your folders organized and clean or do you have junk all over and you just know where it is?
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Re:Is your system organized? by jlengrand on Wednesday June 18, 2014 @05:41PM (#7913043)
Another thing I took for a friend is to number my folders.

For example, I would have 00_perso 01_projects 00_projecta 00_projectb

Somehow my brain is better at remembering the numbers than searching for a folder name. Using that for a few weeks, I realized that I actually started to organize stuff ore, because it was easy to find them.

Ex : gitconfig would be 00 01 .gitconfig My billing 01 02 02

etc. . .

Starting using that technique ended up making myself organized.

Re:Is your system organized? by gjvc on Tuesday June 17, 2014 @04:08AM (#7903313)
When I was a kid I adopted a simple rule which has served me well. A folder should only contain all folders or all files. This forces one to reclassify until there exists a classification for everything.

YMMV.

Re:Is your system organized? by stevekemp on Tuesday June 17, 2014 @07:22AM (#7903737)
I do the same thing - with the extra rule that directory names have their first letter capitalized - and files are always lower-cased.
Re:Is your system organized? by japhyr on Tuesday June 17, 2014 @09:49AM (#7904366)
Do you have a bunch of folders with one file in them, or a bunch of folders named "other"?
Re:Is your system organized? by lifeisstillgood on Tuesday June 17, 2014 @05:33AM (#7903490)
I love that. Strong Typing for organising.
Re:Is your system organized? by styles on Tuesday June 17, 2014 @04:45AM (#7903390)
I actually like this, great tip.
Re:Is your system organized? by voiduser on Tuesday June 17, 2014 @07:16AM (#7903718)
I keep folder and files like I would code.

Folder - > class Files - > functions

This way I keep all my folders concise and relevant.