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

[Mike Matei's Penis]

i find it weird there is zero messages using the extra symbols to categorize stuff based on importance because how alphabetic organizing works...

!!!!!!!!!mikemateipenispics

I do this and just add more exclamation points to make it go higher up on alphabetise

 

[Xarpho's Return]

Does anyone else have a hard time deciding whether yt-dlp downloads belong in the video folder or the archive folder?

yt-dlp videos get put in a folder, then are sorted out. Because YouTube is a lot of random stuff, that often finds itself in "Other - Unsorted Misc (Ten Minutes or Less)". If it's something like a Null stream, then it's off to "Other - Miscellaneous Non-Series Collections" and the subfolders within, specifically "Kiwi Farms Mad at the Internet".

Edit: My photos need a massive redo. What's the difference between "Internet - Memes" and "Internet - Other" in Pictures?

 

[YoRHa No. 2 Type B]

There are some paces I've organised nicely, such as on my NAS. Everything has a nice little home
Then there's the other places like my Pictures which is an unsorted hell of 15,000+ images over the years. Some day I really need to burn it down and start fresh, too many to start organising these days.

 

[BigMan13]

I use my system drive for non-portable programs I don't bother to set a custom install path, and music / videos. I use the other drive for everything else, set up vertically (lots of folders at root).

 

[Friend of Dorothy Parker]

I have my main folders divided into about 10 "pillars" (you can call them buckets) of life, which align to how I organize my goals for the most part, and those buckets all have subfolders dependent on the types of things that fall into each bucket. My onenote notebook, evernote, browser favorites, and other things are (theoretically) similarly organized, so it all aligns. However, they're not perfectly aligned and sometimes I'm too clever or hyper-defined or not intuitively naming things (or especially, for things that could go in different buckets, making inconsistent choices *).

* does my kid's tuition information go in the kid bucket or the financial bucket? Does a car loan go in the car or the financial bucket/ as related to an asset, or strictly as the liability? Does health insurance info (plan info, specific claim info, bill info) go into health/ body, work (benefits), or financial? Does music go into Leisure or live outside my primary structure as its own subject? What about stuff about music that is not music files? Where do collected quotations go? What about that ChatGPT conversation that spanned multiple buckets???

My system needs streamlining and strict rules/ decisions made ahead of time and documented so I don't forget or decide different things different days. Gosh dang it, another opportunity to swallow the 50,000 hours I have spent in lifecto develop my over engineered perfect system and just sell out and hire AI as my consultant to suggest improvements.

Photos from the native iPhone app and Google photos going through cloud sync - where the fuck those things live I have no idea anymore. I know I have multiple copies of some of at this point but no master, confirmed, reliable source , which drives me insane.

 

[agent_donkey]

* does my kid's tuition information go in the kid bucket or the financial bucket? Does a car loan go in the car or the financial bucket/ as related to an asset, or strictly as the liability? Does health insurance info (plan info, specific claim info, bill info) go into health/ body, work (benefits), or financial? Does music go into Leisure or live outside my primary structure as its own subject? What about stuff about music that is not music files? Where do collected quotations go? What about that ChatGPT conversation that spanned multiple buckets???

Just thinking loudly; what if you set up an explicit order? E.g. '02 - Financial' > '06 Family'and if something fits both, you prefer the first.

I also just remembered that back in the day I researched how libraries organize their collections.
Guess what, its about as good of a solution as any one of us retards here have home brew.

 

[long waters]

I installed Hydrus to catalog my shitposts, and a couple years later I'm sitting with around 7 thousand untagged files in my inbox that I will never make it through. It is faster though and you can set the importer to create a tag with the filename.

I started using Hydrus too when my meme collection reached about 20000 files. They were kind of organized in many folders, but still annoying to find sometimes. About a year later and my not-hydrus memes have went down to about 13k and my hydrus collecton is at about 21k. Only problem is I've been slacking in moving all the memes over to hydrus. I need to sit my ass down and just start grinding out about 500 files a day or something and get it over with.
One thing I noticed since I started using Hydrus, I'm more likely to recognize characters by name now. Before when I'd see some funny weeb meme or something I'd just save it in the generic weeb folder, but now my 'tistic ass is compelled to look up what the character is from so I can properly tag it. Same goes for people, politicians, actors, etc.

Edit:
One issue I have is sometimes I use yt-dlp to grab funny twitter videos and whatnot, but I get lazy about actually importing it to hydrus, I have about 50-80 videos to go through right now but I just can't be bothered right now.
Also, I've become more cognizant about how much space each file takes. I've started getting annoyed with PNGs taking up more space than lossless WEBPs.

 

[Soggy Floppa]

One issue I have is sometimes I use yt-dlp to grab funny twitter videos and whatnot, but I get lazy about actually importing it to hydrus, I have about 50-80 videos to go through right now but I just can't be bothered right now.

the URL-Downloader page can grab tweets with poster tag and tweet content in notes, unfortunately subscriptions don't work for twitter ever since Nitter got messed up, and you still have to yt-dlp youtube videos yourself.

 

[Curry Teafag]

Also, I've become more cognizant about how much space each file takes. I've started getting annoyed with PNGs taking up more space than lossless WEBPs.

One thing I often do is reduce the bit depth to a reasonable value. My desktop app screenshots are often 256 or even just 16 colors.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

I tried using tagging-ware a few times now and it was always a horrific experience, so I'm waiting it out on that one.
One thing I've learned is that if I separate the even vaguely personal stuff from everything else, that helps a lot.
There are some (not software related) things Git helps a lot.
I also partially sort by conventional imageboard board names.
As for memes; born to hoard / world is a fuck / 410,757,864,530 pngs.

I don't like having my memes be separate from everything else, especially as there's crossover. (The "Webcomics" and "Box Art" got separated from "Internet - Memes" a while back, yet they're still helpful in shitposting). I've already got stuff separated out for certain characters, some images can't really described with words and if I did I've have to search for that exact phrasing every time.

The way Hydrus is arranged is more if you downloaded anime pictures and needed a way to sort them out and cross-reference them.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

I use Everything so I don't need to organize anything.
"Where's that excel sheet from probably around september 2024 or so, let's see... god damnit it's on the USB drive I left at home!"

 

[Superior Colliculus]

Oh boy. A datamining thread.
I am at threat of my life to answer this thread, and my filesystem is profoundly autistic. I know where everything is however I will not claim "organized" in any capacity.

ls ~ | wc -l
477

I may of gone through several compounding paradigm shifts -- and I've yet to hit a "clean shit up" ideology.

~ signifies $HOME or /home/nigger/
! signifies $DATA or /data/

~/thingies/{random git projects / unwrapped tarballs I do not want shitting up the place (formerly ~/extern)}
~/src/{projects}
~/Documents <- WAS supposed to be my uberdirectory where nesting was done well, but I literally could not, now it's just a nest for the "SHIT THAT ACTUALLY NEEDS TO BE ORGANIZED" like gnucash/passdb shit.
Everything important is in one of the prior stated directory or in a schizophrenic underground tunnel.

! is the most* organized. (* relative to the bombsite of ~)
!/music/{Artist}/{album directory/01. or embedded ... .opus or .webm | singles}
!/{year}/{computer-hostname} <- legacy backups.
!/pictures/sotrme/ <- ten million pictures in both their normal format, .avif, and .jxl
!/pictures/backgrounds/
!/torrent/
!/video/ <- lol lmao, sortme is the (primary (not really, it's been designated to my home directory)) video dumping ground despite not being where videos should be. See the below sample for the quality of the contents.
sortme, being named for its eventual deletion, was meant to be sorted into a set of catagories, however I have yet to get to it.
!/games/
~/Games/ <- ^ neither of these is the correct one.

I had a brain aneurysm over whether ~/Directories should be capitalized or not. Lowercase lost because FUCKING NIGGERS keep creating directories in my home directory which expect the "normal" set of directories rather than XDG.
If I had it my way there would be an absolute minimum of directories and files in ~, however this is physically impossible without recompiling ten thousand mentally retarded programs / setting an army of options.
Options, while fine, were something I did attempt to do:

in .profile (I do not have a .bashrc, I have designated such that this is my only actual file):

# This does not cover even one one billionth of the \.* files my home directory.
export CALCRC="$HOME/.config/calc/init" \
       SCREENRC="$HOME/.config/screen" \
       GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL="$HOME/.config/git/config" \
       CURL_HOME="$HOME/.config/curl/config" \
       GNUPGHOME="$HOME/.config/GnuPG" \
       GOPATH="$HOME/.local/lib/go"

export PYTHON_HISTORY="$HOME/.local/share/python_history" \
       HISTFILE="$HOME/.local/share/bash_history" \
       CALCHISTFILE="$HOME/.local/share/calc_history" \
       SQLITE_HISTORY="$HOME/.local/share/sqlite_history"

# nothing that would benefit from these acknowledges these
export XDG_CACHE_HOME="/tmp/$USER/.cache" \
       XDG_CONFIG_HOME="$HOME/.config" \
       XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/documents" \
       XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/documents" \
       XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/downloads" \
       XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$DATA/music"

Now, above all else, I have stopped caring. I simply dump shit into my home directory.
I am not LFS'ing myself so that my autism can be sated. the best I could do is have my $HOME be a "warzone" for configuration and have a pure, sane, /home/werk/

I know for a fact that I can get a home directory with an absolutely bare number of files, but nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
Regardless, my organization has ranged from great to whatever this is. I am not sure how much effort would be required to clean this up, let alone get a system which is a proper "clean." I would start with putting everything I have now into !/2026/ and try to patch together something less aids.

A sample from one of my dumping directories:

I am actually the Indian in this clip due to my absolutely shit smeared organizational schema:

In the past I have operated on "rename everything and keep ~ clean"
I also went clinically insane and made everything a link such that the structure would be respected.
I have attempted, in vain, to destroy the nonXDG niggers from space, however this has failed and Downloads will be created against my will, and this broke my will to sneed, and so I have gone complete nigger.

In future, I think I will write an organizational schema that isn't complete aids. However, I highly doubt that'll be the case any time soon.

I swear I will clean this shit up (one day (maybe (probably (eventually (at somepoint (in the future.))))))

 

[StacticShock]

ISO, Hungarian, Japanese... Doesn't matter to me who invented it, YYYYMMDD (or YYYY-MM-DD if you prefer) is based, and all other date formats are different levels of gay.
FTFY

there is nothing to fix, it's a shitty international standard standard of people that read from right to left i guess, else why would a left to right reader care about the year of the file rather than the date first?

 

[Dante Alighieri]

/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.

Care to post it?

 

[Pointer to Address]

Every couple years for the last decade I've made a random shit folder where I save everythin with some vague sense of organization until the drive gets full and at this point I can go back through my life in the last 10 years and see whatever I was doing or interested in at the time. Which is neat! But holy shit, does it make a waste of space, now I'm trying to actually sort nicely with dedicated folders for art I enjoy/temporary stuff I'll delete later./Shitposts

 

[Xarpho's Return]

When I archived my 4chan webms I made a separate .txt that described what each one actually was. I should do that on a bigger scale for images, it would certainly save more space than trying to screw around with Hydrus and its demand to duplicate every image to its own directory.

 

[Individualism Incarnate]

A
-AA
--AAA
---AAAA
-AB
--ABA
-AC
--ACA
B
-BA
--BAA
-BB
--BBA
-BC
--BCA
---BCAA

simple as.

 

[ChefBourgeoisie]

I have a NAS. This NAS has just a few folders in root:

• Audio
• Data
• Documents
• Formulae
• Images
• Literature
• Software
• Video

Audio is music and audio books and other obvious things. Music is in either the Pop, Classical, or Jazz subfolder. Data includes some less human-readable stuff... various blockchains, some databases. Formulae is where I keep "how to build things" of various sorts... stl files for 3d printers. Garment patterns. Blueprints and house plans, etc. Images is more or less how it sounds (though fonts go in there too). Literature is epub/pdf/cbz. Software includes video games.

If anything wouldn't belong in one of these root folders, I suspect it's probably not worth keeping (very few exceptions).

 

[Anti Snigger]

I keep any of my documents or projects on a special partition, to facilitate OS reinstalls if need be
I have
data/
- workspace/
- school/
- work/
- media/
- misc/

 

[bandolerofuzz]

Download(1).jpeg
Download(2).jpeg
Download(3).jpeg
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DOC(3).pdf

hope this helps.