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Ask HN: How do you organize your $HOME?
My homedir is a mess. Aside from a few well managed categories such as video, music, pictures, it seems I can't keep my homedir organized. There are remnants of half a dozen failed organization schemes, all of them succumbing to laziness or imperfection. There are a few things I particularly fail at: organizing scratch pads (e.g. notes/logs for a project, one off scripts (which I will probably need later after all) and example code), other people's projects particularly if I start contributing back to them, and documents.
With the a long weekend coming up, I was hoping to sit down an do a serious re-org. How do you keep your homedir organized?
- yan 17y agomy homedir is organized as follows: bin/ - binaries that aren't installed; appended to $PATH docs/ - docs for what i'm working on is here src/ - code dl/ - that i downloaded */ - that i wrote misc/ - self explanatory notes/ - todos, notes i jotted down, urls tmp/ - my sandbox usually filled with downloads, tmp.c and the like And OS X's dirs like Library, Documnets, etc
- byrneseyeview 17y agoPretty much at random. I use Emacs org-mode files and grep as a sort of alternative filesystem; it's a lot more flexible.
- kevindication 17y agoI've got a similar setup but I've been using ack recently and have been very happy. Definitely give it a try as a grep replacement. http://betterthangrep.com/ http://betterthangrep.com/
- mooism2 17y agoIn addition to whatever Ubuntu/Debian/OSX puts there, I have bin/ --- for scripts I wrote myself notes/ --- for notes from talks I've attended, or researched online posts/ --- for things I will post to my blog stories/ --- I used to fancy myself as a writer tmp/ --- anything that doesn't need to be under version control vc/ --- checkouts from other repositories www/ --- scripts and config for my web server The whole things is in a mercurial repository. I have my web server set up so that `*.markdown` files are piped through pandoc when I view them in my web browser.
- humbledrone 17y agoI've got: bin/ build/ downloads/ src/sandbox/ src/git/ src/svn/ src/cvs/ The 'downloads' directory is actually my junk drawer, and should probably be called something like 'misc', but my brain is hardwired to type ~/d<tab>. I'll admit that it's pretty silly that I keep my source code organized by version-control-program, but I have to do it that way to remind me which project comes from which kind of repository.
- elmindreda 17y agoThe bits relevant to the topic at hand: archive/ people/*/ - misc files from people I know projects/*/ - dead source trees of mine downloads/ - stuff from the interwebs playground/ - simple throw-away code projects/ pool/ - design sketches and failed experiments prototypes/ - successful experiments */ - design sketches for larger projects scripts/ - simple usable tools */ - my active project trees research/ - huge cache of docs, whitepapers, books software/ sources/*/ - other people's source trees