On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 8:29 AM Udhay Shankar N <[email protected]> wrote:
> There is a certain amount of up-front hard work that is required, and a > certain amount of ongoing discipline. > > 1. Start with organizing in VERY high level directory structure. (e.g WORK > and PLAY at the highest level) > 2. PLAY could then possibly have subdirectories like READ, WATCH, LISTEN, > PICTURES and so on... > 3. The subdirectory names should get more and more specific as you drill > down (e.g there is a directory called "Jaipur2010Oct" under PICTURES, which > might contain another subfolder called "RedFort") > 4. Don't worry about filling up the directories just yet, but do put new > stuff in specific directories as they get created. > 5. Over time, as you use more files on your computer, get into the habit of > moving it to a specifically named directory. > 6. Copy this entire directory structure to a cloud service like dropbox, > box, or google drive (two caveats: if you are truly paranoid, consider > encrypting it first; and you may not want to bother with music/movies). You > can automate this process by using a tool like Synctoy for Windows. This > will give you a copy accessible from any other computer. > 7. Depending on how much stuff you have, this will, over time, come to > resemble a well-organised and structured computer. :) > > Udhay > Fairly similar to my approach. Any new laptop I start working with, I create three folders on the desktop named W, D, Q. W is for work related stuff. D is for things I write. Q is for Quizzes. I import from the cloud the files that were in W, D, Q in my previous laptops. For movies, photos, music -- I just use the default folders created by the operating system. As time goes on, I seem to be storing lesser and lesser of that on my machines anyway.
