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In a big tree, no tags. It has taken a little while to figure out the shape of my life, but things now fit pretty nicely. I think the work of figuring out the o
by cproctor 8y ago
In a big tree, no tags. It has taken a little while to figure out the shape of my life, but things now fit pretty nicely. I think the work of figuring out the one place where each thing fits is mostly valuable, not overhead. Having a deep tree allows me to incrementally organize files by pushing them partway down toward their final destination when I don't have time.
The biggest current challenge is all the tools that are trying to pull me away from a filesystem. Google Docs has pretty much been a disaster for organization, and I don't use--even for collaboration--unless I absolutely have to. Similarly, Evernote has lost its charm for me. I guess I'm in a minority here, preferring organizing to searching. It gets hard for me to make sense of old documents when they're out of context.
- Documents
- 1-Education
- 2-Teaching
- 3-Software-Engineer
- Unfold-Studio
- unfold_studio
- .git
- 4-PhD
- Research
- Active-Projects
- Text-And-Code
- Studies
- Publications
- 5-Consulting
- 6-Personal
- cproctor 8y agoSlightly off topic, but I'd like to argue for keeping your information in (backed up) local-filesystem files in the first place. I work with collaborators at several universities. Google seems to be pushing defaults toward institutional ownership of documents. I can see why institutions would like that, but there's no way I'll make my long-term access to files dependent on someone else's permissions (or Google randomly, unaccountably deleting my account).