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Ask HN: How do you organize your home directory?
I'm interested in hearing about how others organize the following:
- Source code repositories (personal and work)
- Extra git workspaces
- Virtual machine images
- Documentation and manuals
- Books
I've been iterating on this for many years and have yet to find something "perfect". For source code I've tried the Golang approach of organizing by git repo, using a flat hierarchy under a Source directory, and organizing by work/personal. I've built tools using fzf to quickly switch between projects. I've also made auxiliary directories in home for things like ISOs and qcows. What are other people doing?
- flying_whales 4y agoI do /work and /personal and in the work folder I have a /books folder for all documentation (that is not on Keep or OneDrive). Repos live in the vscode folder in /work. Then I use /Downloads for temp stuff
- JCWasmx86 4y agoI have: - ~/Programming for my projects I worked recently on - ~/Programming/obsolete for my projects I didn't work on for a longer time - ~/Projects for projects I currently work on - ~/tmp for projects where I just write e.g. a small patch for a MR and then push and forget about it - ~/Downloads/pdfs for all pdfs I downloaded - My VM images are wherever GNOME Boxes decided to save them - Documentation and manuals are not in my home directory, but hosted on a Raspberry PI - ~/Uni for all things for the "Hochschule".
- theandrewbailey 4y agoI keep my work on a separate laptop from personal stuff. On my work laptop: I keep all git repositories in one folder. One repo per project. If a random file that's not in git pertains to a specific client (PDF, spreadsheet, etc), it goes in a client/project specific folder on my desktop.
- Comevius 4y ago~/Projects/$project/$repo for my projects ~/Agenda/$project/$project.md for my notes, one file for each project, each project has it's own encryption key ~/Containers for my Wine prefixes, containers ~/Downloads/{Music, Games, Books} for everything else I version control my configuration files, projects and notes. https://github.com/Comevius/dotfiles https://github.com/Comevius/dotfiles