Capital names for GUI things, lowercase names for CLI things. I'd prefer ~/documents, etc, but GUI people insist on capitalizing, so whatever. Very rarely I have to mix those, so it's not a big problem.
~/dotfiles is my dotfiles directory with git. I create ~/.zshrc -> dotfiles/zshrc, etc. I don't use any software to manage that, I just create symlinks. In the past I've used ~/.dotfiles but I think that making it visible makes more sense.
~/projects is my projects directory. ~/projects/test is throwaway test projects to check things out, etc. ~/projects/my is my personal projects. ~/projects/company is projects for company I'm working for. I'm kind of freelancer and sometimes work for different companies, so separation is necessary.
~/tmp is my throwaway directory for everything. I have shell function mkcdtmp which creates ~/tmp/240419 (current date) and cds into it. It's a wonderful way. I rarely clean it, because I prefer to buy big discs and keep trash around, somewhat organized. If I need something from yesterday or past month, I know where to find it. That's the most important thing I did for organizing my temp work which is plenty. Of course I can create ~/tmp/whatever if needed, it's all trash stuff.
Well, that's all, I guess. I don't use ~/Desktop. I rarely use ~/Documents, still need to find a way to organize it. Also I dump my short notes and stuff to my github repo which builds a personal website. I tried various notes software but ordinary website with markdown turned out the best way for me.
I never was able to organize my work in a very structured way, it's always piles of trash moving around which eventually turn into something usable, so instead of fighting myself I decided to make that trash organized.
Essentially my computer is disposable. Everything in ~/projects is in git. Everything in ~/tmp is not very important and more like a cache or discarded work. I'm trying to organize things in a way so restoring it from the clean state wouldn't take much time. I often reinstall OS from the scratch and I often switch between operating systems and laptops, that suits me best.
I personally would rather type "ThisIsSomeOtherProject" than "this-is-some-other-project" as advocated on the page. Approximately the same number of keypresses but fewer characters to read.
Capital names for GUI things, lowercase names for CLI things. I'd prefer ~/documents, etc, but GUI people insist on capitalizing, so whatever. Very rarely I have to mix those, so it's not a big problem.
~/dotfiles is my dotfiles directory with git. I create ~/.zshrc -> dotfiles/zshrc, etc. I don't use any software to manage that, I just create symlinks. In the past I've used ~/.dotfiles but I think that making it visible makes more sense.
~/projects is my projects directory. ~/projects/test is throwaway test projects to check things out, etc. ~/projects/my is my personal projects. ~/projects/company is projects for company I'm working for. I'm kind of freelancer and sometimes work for different companies, so separation is necessary.
~/tmp is my throwaway directory for everything. I have shell function mkcdtmp which creates ~/tmp/240419 (current date) and cds into it. It's a wonderful way. I rarely clean it, because I prefer to buy big discs and keep trash around, somewhat organized. If I need something from yesterday or past month, I know where to find it. That's the most important thing I did for organizing my temp work which is plenty. Of course I can create ~/tmp/whatever if needed, it's all trash stuff.
Well, that's all, I guess. I don't use ~/Desktop. I rarely use ~/Documents, still need to find a way to organize it. Also I dump my short notes and stuff to my github repo which builds a personal website. I tried various notes software but ordinary website with markdown turned out the best way for me.
I never was able to organize my work in a very structured way, it's always piles of trash moving around which eventually turn into something usable, so instead of fighting myself I decided to make that trash organized.
Essentially my computer is disposable. Everything in ~/projects is in git. Everything in ~/tmp is not very important and more like a cache or discarded work. I'm trying to organize things in a way so restoring it from the clean state wouldn't take much time. I often reinstall OS from the scratch and I often switch between operating systems and laptops, that suits me best.