How do you tidy your home, aka `tree -L2 ~`

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	cjm Offline \| 12-08-2014, 04:40 PM \| #17

(10-08-2014, 05:23 AM)rwzy Wrote: Not output, but probably something like what it'd eventually be:

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╾─┐ ~ ├── bin ├─┐ books │ └── txt ├─┐ dl │ ├── fonts │ ├── images │ ├── themes │ └─┐ torrents │ ├── session │ └── watch ├─┐ docs │ ├─┐ archive │ │ └── www │ ├── email │ └── uni ├── dv ├── etc ├── games ├── music ├── notes ├─┐ pics │ ├── art │ ├── gifs │ ├── memes │ ├── photos │ ├── scrots │ ├── sprites │ └── walls ├─┐ src │ ├── aur │ ├── builds │ ├── code │ ├── pkg │ ├── ports │ └── scripts ├── tmp └─┐ vids ├── clips ├── doco ├── football ├── movies ├── music ├── pods ├── shows └── talks
bin: Standard local bin directory that gets added to the path.

books: Divided by author.

txt: Non-fiction (e.g. textbooks) which are further subdivided into general categories.

dl: Theoretically, I guess there shouldn't be a downloads directory if I've organised my folders properly, but I still have one because... sometimes I feel like downloading first and managing later so I just make the appropriate directories and dump them there for the time being. Then I can later finely comb through the downloaded things and pick the ones I actually want. (When initally downloading, it's too slow to figure out at hand if I really want it or not.) And images refers to iso's, not actual images which usually easily find their place in `pics`.

torrents: Rtorrent's directory because it just made sense to put it in `dl`.

docs: Important documents, usually directly placed in the `docs` folder itself.

archive: The important documents are placed here once they are dealt with (no longer currently relevant), (filename) ordered by date.

www: A bit different, just a place to put interesting (usually internet) articles (usually from rss) in a date ordered form too. So it makes sense to put it in `docs/archive`.

email: Makes sense to put in `docs` since emails are commonly related to the important documents (important emails).

uni: If there are many important documents that form their own category, then more folders will be created, such as this `uni` directory. (So a folder will be created for a particular project etc.)

dv: Things I'm making/hacking on that I have commit access to.

etc: Don't actually have this yet. But once I figure out how to manage my dotfiles under git version control, I'll probably use `etc` as the folder for it. Other names could have included `conf` or `dots` or `dotfiles` but `conf` is four letters where `etc` is three and `dots` and `dotfiles` don't work since there's already `docs`. `rc` is also a viable option though.

games: For roms, save states, cheats, stats references, walkthroughs etc. divided by game.

src: Like a catch all for more source code stuff (which isn't being directly hacked on like in `dv`).

aur: For, well AUR packages, since the operating system is nearly always arch. I guess it's not a good thing to have os-specific things but it just makes sense since I usually use arch anyway. I should probably just be using the abs or something for this instead though...

builds: Area for building random things, fairly useless but not much harm in keeping it there.

code: Place to put source code that I want to store, usually for studying/learning but sometimes just for the storage.

pkg: For PKGBUILDS (that I maintain or are just personal). Again arch specific and should just be the abs. Why I put `ports` there as well, that could just be a local abs directory, except that it doesn't sound os-specific.

scripts: Collection of the rest of useful scripts which didn't make it to `bin`.

tmp: Temporary dumping/playing around with directory. Mostly useless, but sometimes useful and probably deserves to exist.

Rest are self-explanatory. I like to have all my consumables directories directly under home rather than have a separate usr/var/media directory for all that.