How I Organize My Files

#folders #productivity #discuss

I backup all my files in git, basically my life in a nutshell.
For now, I am using bitbucket for the git storage.
Planning to migrate to GitHub in the future.

I don't just organize my code, I organize all my files. Including videos, pictures and rants. And also much more in the future.

All of that backups will be cloned in all of my developing machines. I usually name them as root, so '~/root'.

Here's the tree view of root :

dev/
files/
images/
rants/
videos/

Here, let me explain.

dev/ is for my works. Developer stuffs.
files/ is for files. Mostly downloads of zip files.
images/ is for images. Basically my photos, backuped.
rants/ is for my rants. I'm usually bored at the bus. So I just open my MacBook and just start ranting as I wait for the bus to arrive.
videos/ is for my videos. When I don't have anything to do, I usually sing random shit and I record it. Even tho the folder says videos some of them isn't a video.

files/, images/, rants/ & videos/ doesn't really have a lot of files for now since I'm really focused on the dev/ directory.

Inside the dev/ folder

Treeview :

cdn/
fun/
packages/
works/

cdn/ is the directory of my CDN. Mostly frameworks or clients files.
fun/ is where I put files that isn't related to works. Mostly open-source contribution and stuffs.
packages/ is where I put installer stuffs. Probably some frameworks configuration and some dotfiles.
works/ is where I put work stuff. Clients source code. Yeah, those stuffs.

Inside the fun/ folder

Treeview :

experiments/
mine/
open-source/
shits/

experiments/ is where I do experiments.
mine/ is where I put personal codes. Mostly website and algorithm.
open-source/ is where I do my open source stuffs. You know, those stuffs.
shits/ is where all those legacy codes rests in peace.

That's it. Let me know what you think.

Update

I ended up splitting the git repo between the dev/ folder and everything else.

dev/ is now called Workspace.
everything else is now called BEE (Basically Everything Else)

Oh, and I also moved shits from fun to root. (mv fun/shits . && mv shits cemetery)

It is now called cemetery.

Top comments (6)

Jochem Stoel • Dec 5 '17

Woa. You are a lot more organized than I am! Been trying to get some structure in my workflow for a while now. I'll take this into consideration doing that.

Roger Stach • Dec 5 '17

I know! I use to do ~/GitHub/projects/<project name> but I get tired since it is really really dirty. I gotta be honest, long paths isn't actually that bad, it actually help me out to organize thing by categories. Anyway, thanks for reading this post!