Comment by bpev

My filesystem organization has been based off of Johnny decimal for some years now. TBH, I don't know how much I specifically recommend it, since it did take quite a long time (years) for me to really figure out my organization and become comfortable. But now, because my system is now pretty set in my brain, the big benefit is that I can pretty much navigate to mostly any directory instantly from anywhere without too much thought, using scripts I wrote. (https://johnny.bpev.me/guide, which is really mainly https://github.com/bpevs/johnny_decimal/blob/main/source/she...). But it makes my filesystem feel much flatter and simpler to me.

For example...

- My latest large coding project spans from `22.00` - `22.20` (clients from `.01`, server from `.11`, libs from `.21`), and I can navigate to any of those directories from anywhere in my filesystem via `jd 22.10`. Or if I forget which one, `jd ls 22`.

- For things like photos and completed music production projects, I organize in more of a date system, but that entire system is housed in the jd structure, so if I want to look at some photos, I can easily open `31.02` and navigate internally to that.

Oh fwiw, I only use a few broad categories:

- `10-19 Notes`

- `20-29 Projects` (active projects, code and music mostly)

- `30-39 Archives` (closed projects)