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One thing I do that I've found to be pretty helpful is to prefix files/directories with a number or date, for sorting. Some things are naturally ordered by date
by mcaruso 9y ago
One thing I do that I've found to be pretty helpful is to prefix files/directories with a number or date, for sorting. Some things are naturally ordered by date, for example events. So I might have a directory "my-company/archive", where each item is named "20170621_some-event".
Other things are better sorted by category or topic. For tools or programming languages I'm researching I might have a directory with items "01_some-language", "02_setup", "10_type-system", "20_ecosystem", etc.
- yagyu 9y agoI did this (with dates) for all calculations I did during my PhD and it turned out very useful despite its simplicity. I guess it was simple enough that I could actually be consistent over years. I wish the rest of my projects were as orderly ;)
- rphillips 9y agoI do something very similar. I save files into a watched folder with Hazel (Google Drive, Dropbox and my Downloads folder). Hazel has a rule to rename the file with the YYYYMMDD_Filename.ext, and then depending on the extension filters it to a different folder, or with a PDF runs an OCR on it and stores it in Devonthink Pro.