I take it anyone using this site is somewhat computer oriented, and if you're like me and have been that way since you were very young you might have had to deal with the horrors of HAVING FILES...
Program files are easy enough... when you install something, it goes into the program files directory.
But what about the files you create yourself? Important documents? Lease agreements? Receipts & warranties? Downloaded movies, TV, music and pictures? Journal entries? Sketches? Finished artwork? Photos?
Where do you put them?! And why?!
I have tried to create a system for myself by incorporating the https://johnnydecimal.com/ method into Obsidian (https://obsidian.md/)
The main things I've stuck to: Shallow folder hierarchies (three folders deep at most), an "inbox" folder, where I put files before I know where to sort them, and trying to assign IDs to everything I produce.
But maintaining the system is hard, and time consuming, and revisions require modifying several dozens of folders!! Ack!!
How do you all go about organising files? Are you precise with some things and loose with others? Do you have any advice?
i think im not much a big file user.. i just have a large hard drive for my files (1 folder for each medium, photos, films, books, etc ), 1 subfolder in each of those for the "put one of these on at random" whims..
and then my main drive is just the two games i play + programs...
art tbh i just delete the files of after i finish :P but if its notable enough ill take the time to upload it to my website / send it into my harddrive as a backup... i think my whole computer is arround 250 gb at the end of the day.. so its really not much of anything to manage
i will periodically delete like 100gb of random stuff off my computer from time to time, clearing old torrents with positive ratios etc so i guess thats why its so small
for notes i use org-mode and put everything in a big folder. no indexing no System. if i need to find smth i use grep.
books go in zotero and zotfile handles the folder hierarchy. i check it into git-annex as well.
i tend to redo my file hierarchy from scratch every few years and sort through all my older files to put them in their proper place, it's hard to keep things clean and consistent for a long time so that's been working a lot better for me.
at the moment i have a big drive with some very harsh transparent compression forced on where i store everything that doesnt need to be written to a lot (music, photos, documents, shows & movies, etc). every type of thing has its own folder at the root
everything else is just on my main drive that has the OS on it which i consider relatively disposable
>>3mqqqhhexnk2v
a very loose ad-hoc system stratified over the course of years which is not advisable, i believe my oldest kept files are from 14 years ago, sitting in tucked up digital cupboards. the organization is a personal silent spoken-word tradition: there is a maze of erratically named folders, each name some injoke or periodic interest that signifies a specific era of time. add and subtract archives and subarchives and you have a series of crisscrossed paths that have been memorized over years upon years of application. advantages: long lost cherished files that are no longer on the public internet stay safely nestled in this tucked away alexandriatic archive. disadvantages: huge pain in the ass to find anything; each foray a cheeky riddle constructed by the calcified turrets of past lives. if i ever suffer a serious head injury then i am in serious trouble, for a lot of reasons. but still theres something nice about a set of catacombs which only you know the secrets to.
does anyone have a good file explorer alternative? just a basic keyword search thing, maybe ability to search specific phrases. trying to search anything in default windows file search is becoming more and more useless.
>>3mqsjqzebx22v
probably not the ideal solution but Google Photos' search function is pretty good at image recognition.
Sintel's image atlas application (https://github.com/Sin-tel/image_atlas/) is really good at grouping images with visual similarities, but it doesn't have any text search functionality...
i'm looking for a way to visualize my movie file hoard as a grid of movie posters without having to use streaming apps like plex or jellyfin.... if anyone has any pointers let me know
>>3mqsjqzebx22v
i use "everything"; you can search entire hard drive(s) very quickly with it
im curious how you guys keep samples (likke music samples) organized, struggling so bad because i cant figure out a way thats intuitive to me... messy messy messy >,>
>>3mqx47wkzye2x
everything changed my life lol. it's hard to remember suffering through window search for so long
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