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- Desktop has the same fate this ^. Have a CLI tool that takes everything from the desktop and puts it in ~/Desktop/cleaned/ - ~tools/dotfiles/ hosts all dotfi

- Desktop has the same fate this ^. Have a CLI tool that takes everything from the desktop and puts it in ~/Desktop/cleaned/ - ~tools/dotfiles/ hosts all dotfiles with a Makefile that sets everything up - ~tools/<randomTools> - contains mostly useful utilities and scripts like fonts, vpn configs, terminal color schemes, config patches to apply to `/etc/` after fresh install etc. - ~Projects/<client|company>/<project_name> for paid work projects - ~Projects/<projectName> for personal projects - ~Playground/<experiment> for experiments, prototypes or building software from github out of curiosity - ~Applications/<appName> for apps I build from source and copy/link binaries to `~/bin`. I'm on Linux so this is non-standard. - ~GoogleDrive/<accountName> for Google drive sync with Insync - ~Vaults/<vaultName> for mounting cryfs encrypted directories from the Google Drive directories. (some times use plasma vault for this)

jason_slack 8y ago
+1 for Playground/ I was just trying to decide where to put some experiments I was working on and Tests/ just didn't look right :-)
- dcsan 8y ago
  I put 'em in ~/rad Research and Development
- zaphar 8y ago
  I called my version of this ~/sandbox.
  - walljm 8y ago
    same here
  - jason_slack 8y ago
    Yeah I like this too. Perhaps I use playground/ for when I am in a good mood and sandbox/ when in a bad mood.
    - Jeremy1026 8y ago
      playground/ when you expect things to be clean sandbox/ when you're ready to get messy
      - jason_slack 8y ago
        +2 Yeah that is so much better.
chiefalchemist 8y ago
To be consistent, I treat myself as a client and follow all the same rules. But I also give the important ones their own "brand" name. It's a pseudo "exit" plan. That is, I could "sell" to someone else. The gist is, doing my own projects differently took away more then it helped.
dublin 8y ago
One thing I really liked in the old MacOS was that the Desktop wasn't really a location for files, it was just a place where you could move them to keep them handy to work on, and then use the "put away" command to send them back to wherever they came from. (They really needed some session management for different kinds of tasks, though.

jason_slack 8y ago

+1 for Playground/ I was just trying to decide where to put some experiments I was working on and Tests/ just didn't look right :-)

dcsan 8y ago
I put 'em in ~/rad Research and Development
zaphar 8y ago
I called my version of this ~/sandbox.
- walljm 8y ago
  same here
- jason_slack 8y ago
  Yeah I like this too. Perhaps I use playground/ for when I am in a good mood and sandbox/ when in a bad mood.
  - Jeremy1026 8y ago
    playground/ when you expect things to be clean sandbox/ when you're ready to get messy
    - jason_slack 8y ago
      +2 Yeah that is so much better.

chiefalchemist 8y ago

To be consistent, I treat myself as a client and follow all the same rules. But I also give the important ones their own "brand" name. It's a pseudo "exit" plan. That is, I could "sell" to someone else. The gist is, doing my own projects differently took away more then it helped.

dublin 8y ago

One thing I really liked in the old MacOS was that the Desktop wasn't really a location for files, it was just a place where you could move them to keep them handy to work on, and then use the "put away" command to send them back to wherever they came from. (They really needed some session management for different kinds of tasks, though.