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Yes this 100% :D I have all the stuff I work on on my desktop. When that gets full, I move everything into a folder "Old Desktop" which I place on the desktop.
by GekkePrutser 5y ago
Yes this 100% :D
I have all the stuff I work on on my desktop. When that gets full, I move everything into a folder "Old Desktop" which I place on the desktop. Of course this isn't the first time I did that. So this folder contains a chain of many such "Old Desktop" folders :')
It leads to interesting discussions sometimes such as "why do you have a 200GB roaming profile???". Organisationally though I can find stuff back really easily. While I traverse the chain of "Old Desktop"s I see other documents from the same timeframe which brings me back really easily.
In fact more organised people are often surprised how quickly I manage to dig up ancient stuff for them. They tend to lose track of things over time, probably when they move to a new PC or file hoster or whatever. I've really become the "Do you still have that inventory from 2007?" guy at work. I see no reason to change it at all.
- ddingus 5y agoToo funny! I do just about the same. Have plenty of [something]-Desktop directories myself. I use a fast, local search app to find things sometimes. Often, I only need the time, place, project though.
- gyom 5y agoI also found that the best system is having the first layer of folder organization be "which period of my time is this from?". Conceptually, it's easier to think of "music from high school" than about the specific mix of subgenres from my playlist back then. Same for documents that I saved. Those ICQ logs from high school are there. They don't belong in the same folder as the stuff I wrote yesterday, even though they could be of a similar nature.