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It's beautiful. Thanks to Moore's law, you can always fit all historical data in half your latest disk space. Though I personally tend to call them "Stuff" or
by marginalia_nu 1y ago
It's beautiful. Thanks to Moore's law, you can always fit all historical data in half your latest disk space. Though I personally tend to call them "Stuff" or "Junk".
But don't do
Stuff
Junk
That's a rookie strategy, do
Stuff /
Stuff / Stuff
Stuff / Stuff / Junk / ...
When you need to find something old, just go down the folders until you start finding files from the right decade.
- debugnik 1y agoI've been telling myself I'll organise my now 4 layers nested stuff folders for 15 years. A bit off-topic, but can anyone recommend tools to organise this much random stuff?
- rkomorn 1y agoNot the answer you're looking for, I know, but I used to have 100+ labels/folders, 4-5 deep, and decade+ old emails, obsessively organized etc. 5 years ago, I dropped down to 20 labels, and started routinely deleting anything over 5 years old except for a specific "keep forever" label. No regrets. No instances of searching for old items and not finding them, etc.
- clickety_clack 1y agoYou should only organize things as you actually use them. The things you use are then generally organized and you haven’t wasted a bunch of time organizing stuff you never use. If you do decide to organize a bunch of stuff you never use, that decision is then totally aesthetic, so you should choose a method of doing it that you find aesthetically pleasing. Source: obsidian user who spent a bunch of time organizing stuff he never uses.
- debugnik 1y agoI largely agree, that's why I've still got all of it stored away, but I guess I'd like to keep track of what is it that I'm not using, what can I delete and what can I deduplicate.