I have different folders on my C drive: ‘Projects’ for my work projects, ‘Side projects’ for my work related side project, ‘Personal projects’ for my personal projects and sonon. Each project has a root folder (named after the project) inside the allocated folder(e.g. Personal projects), which contains ALL the files related (git, src and other files) to that project (since I’m a web dev, it also contains the webroot of that site). Then every root project folder has a different icon (for clients it is the client logo, otherwise it is a related icon). Hope this helps you out!
The icon trick is a good idea - I’ll have to try that. I had a similar structure at one point that quickly fell apart. I probably need to figure out exactly why it fell apart and address that. And I probably need to delete some projects I have hanging around
Yeah, the icons are a great help and the folders are quite okay, the only issue is that aside from tons of files I have alot of services running per project (a db, an indexing servie, iis website etc) which fry my pc alot, the way I solved that was to by default not start the process (classic windows config) and I crated a star script which I run when I start a project. In the future I might create a ui for this.
Great idea about the folder icon! Thank you! I take a similar approach, but I house all named sub-folders in one Dev parent directory on my hard drive.
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I have different folders on my C drive: ‘Projects’ for my work projects, ‘Side projects’ for my work related side project, ‘Personal projects’ for my personal projects and sonon. Each project has a root folder (named after the project) inside the allocated folder(e.g. Personal projects), which contains ALL the files related (git, src and other files) to that project (since I’m a web dev, it also contains the webroot of that site). Then every root project folder has a different icon (for clients it is the client logo, otherwise it is a related icon). Hope this helps you out!
The icon trick is a good idea - I’ll have to try that. I had a similar structure at one point that quickly fell apart. I probably need to figure out exactly why it fell apart and address that. And I probably need to delete some projects I have hanging around
Yeah, the icons are a great help and the folders are quite okay, the only issue is that aside from tons of files I have alot of services running per project (a db, an indexing servie, iis website etc) which fry my pc alot, the way I solved that was to by default not start the process (classic windows config) and I crated a star script which I run when I start a project. In the future I might create a ui for this.
Take a look at Docker. I had the same problem and Docker was the solution.
Icons? Where do you source them from?
I download them onto my pc, but since I am a Webdev I often pick the favicon of the project as it is more recognizable.
Ah! Makes sense, being primarily a data developer, I don't get so many...
You can also use some default windows icons if you don't have any yourself
Great idea about the folder icon! Thank you! I take a similar approach, but I house all named sub-folders in one
Devparent directory on my hard drive.