How Do You Organize Your Files? - New Folder (1), New Folder (1) (1)

  • 🔧 Site instability resolved. You can report double-posts and broken attachments. For bigger issues, use the Technical Grievances thread.
    🇵🇦 Nuestro primer dominio localizado está en español en kiwifarms.pa. Our first localized domain is on Spanish on kiwifarms.pa.
  • Want to keep track of this thread?
    Accounts can bookmark posts, watch threads for updates, and jump back to where you stopped reading.
    Create account
Destacado
William F. Clinton

William F. Clinton

Commander in Chief
kiwifarms.net
Registrado
10 de Nov, 2024
I'm gonna be reorganizing and cleaning up my catalogue and was curious how Kiwis like to organize their folders. For me, what I'm looking to do is roll everything into six or seven mega-folders and then make an autistic amount of subfolders for each.

MEDIA/​

Film/
--By Director
TV/
--By Genre
Music/
--Artist/
---Album
Youtube Videos/
--Channels
--Favorites
Radio + Podcasts/
Books/
--By Author
--Audio Books
Wallpapers/
--Single Color
--Landscapes
--Digital Art
--Screenshots

I haven't really looked into file tagging programs, but I'm curious to judge see what everyone else does to keep track of their shit.

1761701741827.png
 
Código: 
/home/user/all/images/webp/
/home/user/all/documents/txt/
etc

Then I have a script where I type cleaner that moves everything from ~/Downloads/ and /home/user/ into their respective folders by file extension. It's really not worthwhile to catalog everything and keep it all neat. It's all stupid nonsense really. If something is truly important you just make a special folder for it and you remember where it is.
 
Poorly. Mainly just folders on my desktop. My roms are at least organized by system and music by format but it's mainly just long lists of files
 
My filing ranges from "painstakingly autistic" to "teenage boy's bedroom floor" depending on the files.

From least to most chaotic:

Music
Movies / Documentaries
TV Series
Photos / videos I've taken
Documents
Apps / Games
Videos I've downloaded from YT
Podcasts
Memes
Temp folders (shit to sort out later on)
Downloads

That final category is largely devoid of music and video I want to keep long-term as that all gets copied over shortly after I've downloaded it (unless I need to seed it for a while), and I only copy photos and videos shot on my phone or DSLR when I know I'll file them in the correct folders immediately.

herefortheactualthreads dijo:
mostly by date no matter if and how many folders i use.
Presiona para expandir...
I save my documents into categorised folders, with the date at the beginning of the filename, using the Japanese YYYYMMDD format as all other date formats are for niggers. Works great for me.
 
Última edición:
i have artism and my reference folder is 30 gigabytes large. In it, one can find:
  • aesthetic (stuff that looks cool, color combinations, logotypes, spinning cigarette packs, text etc)
  • animals (yes the cats folder is the biggest)
  • architecture
  • artists
  • body
  • objects
  • paintings (unsorted)
  • scenery (general)
  • scenes (in which stuff is happening)
  • self (the better pieces of images / stuff that could benefit from eventually expanding upon)
  • "just steal it" folder
  • tutorials
  • "various" (including memes that are dear to my heart, a few wallpapers, music videos with artistic value etc)
other than that, music gets sorted by genre/artist/alias/release, movies go by name, YT slop goes by channel and sometimes genre (YTP, TF2/SFM), music samples are all more or less in a big heap in a folder, games (what few of them) are all in a box (except ROMs for some reason) and program executables and scripts are all in a folder (99% of stuff is available in the distro's repositories. Why yes, I do use Linux - how could you tell?)

on a related note, it took 3 evenings straight to sort the "unsorted" folder with hundreds of fucking memes and cat pics last week and since then i vowed to never visit the random pics thread again.
 
I use the PARA (Projects, Areas, Resources, Archives) Method to organize documents and general files.

My home stuff is organized by categories like Financial, Legal, Medical, Pets, Vehicles and then by year. It takes time to build the habit to make sure you stay on top of everything that comes in and put it in its right place.

For media, I follow Plex's file heirarchy still so I have TVs and Movies then divided by Normal and Kids and then just put the series or movie in its own folder. My music is just artist name and then CDs inside their folders. I mostly try and get full discographies when downloading music.

I don't download pictures and memes because I'm not organizing and tagging photos. At most I have a wallpaper folder for ricing my browser. I haven't changed my desktop or phone wallpaper in 10+ years.

Every software installer goes into a Programs folder and gets cleaned out every quarter. The Downloads folder is never used because I have rules of where every file type should go.

For games, I have them organized in folders by console for ROMs and then their emulators set up in Playnite so I can see all my games from Steam and my local installs on one dashboard.

What you're ultimately trying to accomplish is reducing friction in the system you are implementing. DropIt can automate some of your organization process and Everything Search will help you find files. Bulk Rename Utility and MP3Tag also help with nomenclature and music tagging.
 
GreenTips dijo:
The Downloads folder is never used because I have rules of where every file type should go.
Presiona para expandir...
What I'd give that level of autism discipline.

GreenTips dijo:
DropIt can automate some of your organization process and Everything Search will help you find files. Bulk Rename Utility and MP3Tag also help with nomenclature and music tagging.
Presiona para expandir...
TagScanner is another excellent tool for music file tagging, as it semi-automates the process of tagging poorly tagged / untagged music files by comparing file names / song lengths with online databases such as Discogs and MusicBrainz. This works best when each file name is accurate, and works especially well with albums.

I've not tried DropIt yet, but the rest of these tools are essential for any Windows user (especially Everything search... that is the tits).
 
Some parts like my media stuff very autisticly so my various media apps can detect everything properly. My photography is stored by year and event. Then everything else whatever seems to make the most sense at the time or just dumped into a folder that roughly matches what it is.
 
Everything goes on Desktop, sort by date descending. When I get a new computer, files from old desktop get moved to long term storage in a folder labeled with "(Computer Model) C drive". Every few years the autism kicks in and I decide to organize things, and then I can't remember where the fuck anything is and I have to use the search function like a common heathen.
 
I've accidentally sent files to my boss named "fuck.doc"

Great thing I don't use the company laptop. Otherwise they'd find my real file structure...........

user/documents/work/nigger/cunt.xlsx
user/documents/work/nigger/ihateniggers.xlsx
user/documents/work/nigger/nigger.txt
user/documents/work/nigger/niggers.zip
user/documents/work/nigger/georgefloyd.zip
 
I have dedicated folders that I sync across my devices with Syncthing, and this is where I store most of my important files. I primarily separate files by their function rather than file type: if it's for making me laugh, it goes into the "funny" folder; if it's related to my education, it goes into the "university" folder. Because of this, I don't use folders like "documents" or "images." If I have at least a dozen files with anything in common, they get their own folder, and I have no problem putting folders inside folders for the sake of creating subcategories. This makes finding specific files a lot easier if I don't remember the filename, even if I have to go through several layers of folders to get to the file.
 
Everything goes on the desktop with a random name, along with vaguely named folders for larger projects. When the desktop looks full I move everything into a folder called "Old" and start over. Clicking through the dozens of nested Old folders makes me feel like an archeologist.
 
For everything I make, I divide it into folders based on categories and then make subfolders based on year.
For the most part, I haven't downloaded enough medias made by others to bother with organizing it beyond putting multiple things that are part of the same series in their own subfolder. That being said, my music folder is a complete mess.
Does anyone else have a hard time deciding whether yt-dlp downloads belong in the video folder or the archive folder?
 
Última edición:
Destacado
Debes iniciar sesión o registrarte para responder aquí.
Atrás
Top Abajo