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[-] NJSpradlin@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago

I find myself having too many nested folders, and I’m just a normie. I wonder how deep they go for you tech people.

At some points, Windows won’t let me change the file name because it was too long and I’m assuming the file path to it plus the ridiculously long name (“person last name, first name - type of document (purpose) yyyymmdd”) just breaks Windows.

Sometimes I have to copy those files to my desktop just to rename the new file, so that I can upload the file to an online system that only lets me upload files with names under 42 characters long. It’s wild.

[-] Lightfire228@pawb.social 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

In my obsidian notes folder, i have

  • 01 - Inbox
  • 02 - Breadbox
  • 03 - Data

.

  • Inbox is for newly created notes
  • Breadbox is for notes that i need to reference or otherwise want quick access to
  • Data is for everything else

For file navigation, i use links and references within the notes themselves, which creates a network of linked files that is far far easier to navigate than folders


Everything else is sorta all over the place, but in general

  • ~/Documents
    • dumping ground for important documents, folders are arbitrarily made as I go
  • ~/Downloads
    • dumping grounds for downloaded things, generally important files are moved elsewhere
  • ~/Code is where i put all of my personal projects and other junk related to programming

~/ is the user home directory

  • C:\Users\Name for windows
  • /home/name for linux

For pictures, i use a self hosted Immich instance

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