Comment by zadikian
9 hours ago
On the other hand, I get why cloud drive users completely disregard file structure and search everything. Two files usually don't have the same name unless you're laying it out programmatically like this. I use dir trees for code ofc, but everything else is flat in my ~/Documents.
Deep inside a project dir, feels like some the ease of LLMs is just not having to cd into the correct directory, but you shouldn't need an LLM to do that. I'm gonna try setting up some aliases like "auto cd to wherever foo/main.py is" and see how that goes.
> I use dir trees for code ofc, but everything else is flat in my ~/Documents.
Which is great, but on all major OSes you'd eventually hit performance issues with flat directories like this. Might not be an issue in month one, or even year one, but after 10 years of note taking/journaling that approach will show the issue with large flat directories.
So eventually you'd need to shard it somehow, so might as well start categorizing/sorting things from the get go, at least in some broad major categories at least, because doing so once you already have 10K entries in a directory, it sucks big time to do it.
If it's just performance, cd ~/Documents && mkdir old && mv ./* old/ (or today's date instead of old). I actually have that layout on one PC.
If real organization is needed, seems like that'd be easier in hindsight than having foresight
So then you have one intentionally slow directory ("old/" in this case) and one fast directory?
Personally I'd categorize stuff, but you do you, there really isn't any wrong way to do it, if it works it works :)
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