How do you organise your files?

[Masoris]

I have so many files in my computer.

For example.
html files which scraped from website.
txt files which was written about memo or to do list.
odt files which was made to study something.
png files which is just funny.
and so on.

First time, I just putted this on my Desktop, and I open and edit those files to click them on my Desktop. But I soon realize that there are no space any more in Desktop. So I made directory and I put in my files. And I made subdirectory to organise my files. The more I gathering files, the more I need to make subdirectories.

Now I have few thousand of files, and about 100 of subdirectories, then I realize that I can't find file what I want, although I use desktop search programme. And I have no idea which file is what I need and which one is not. There are so many document files in my computer. I seems likes crazy :(

I need new way to organize files. I can't manage them any more just to make directory and put files on.

How do you organise your files?

[tbroderick]

All directories under ~/

documents
downloads
graphics
mail
movies
photos
podcasts
roms
scripts
videos
work


I got music on a separate partition under /media/hdb1

music

[sunexplodes]

I built sort of a secondary home folder, as I like to keep my documents seperate from my settings.

so i have a /home/kyle, which is where my documents are, and /home/kylo, which is the login, where all settings are kept.

/home/kyle
dev
--html
--php
doc
--phone numbers etc
--notes
img
--system
--wallpaper
--albumcovers
--art
--people
repository
--all my downloaded deb files

[Tomosaur]

/home/tom/
--documents/
----music/
----work/
------uni/
------programming/
--------<languages>/
----------<projects>/
--programs/
----<various programs that I don't feel like installing system wide, couple of games etc>/

[karellen]

/home/camil
- debs
- documents
~ books
~ history
~ personal
~ stuff
- gnome art
- incomplete
- logs
- music
- pics
- programming
- torrents
- video

[maruchan]

I keep everything on my desktop, like this:

Desktop
|- Desktop Archive 1 folder
|- Desktop Archive 2 folder
|- Desktop Archive 3 folder

What's not in one of those archives is kept on my desktop. My final* desktop icons are 16x16 and my screen resolution is 1920x1200.

When I need to find a file on my desktop I get really frustrated and put everything in an archive folder, then I have a clean desktop and I forgot what I was looking for.

*When I remember what I was looking for, I put it on my desktop and change the size to 64x64 so I don't lose it. As things get crowded I move the size down to 16x16.

One more thing, I'm just kidding.

[SeanHodges]

Heres my arrangement, probably could be cleared up a bit more by now:

audio
- music
- comedy
- unsorted (music from other people that clutter up amaroK collection)

dev

docs

downloads

gp2x (everything GP2X related goes in here, so i can move it around easily)

images
- photos
- wallpapers

programs (downloaded or installed without package manager)

video
- tv
- films
- recorded
- timeshift

vmware (VM's)

www (symlink to my /var/www directory)

xdebug (profiler cache files created by XDebug, which i'm playing with atm)

[ronocdh]

I built sort of a secondary home folder, as I like to keep my documents seperate from my settings.

so i have a /home/kyle, which is where my documents are, and /home/kylo, which is the login, where all settings are kept.

/home/kyle
dev
--html
--php
doc
--phone numbers etc
--notes
img
--system
--wallpaper
--albumcovers
--art
--people
repository
--all my downloaded deb files
I follow a drill-down approach very similar to this. A good deal of the documents I produce are university-related, as I take copious notes. Under my Documents folder I have School, then the school I'm currently attending, then the year, the term, then the class, and finally a subfolder for a project I'm working on. =)

I follow a similar course of action for, say, my images, adding a folder for images I take with my camera, then by year, etc.; also I have one where I save my exported images for use as desktops, and I also have a folder for great images that I found online!

Right now I'm trying to reorganize my music folder by file format.

[FoolsGold]

I have a partition mounted as /datadrive, chowned to me, which is where I keep all my data (what a surprise). This way, if I need to reinstall I can blow away my home/root partitions without worry, as all the good stuff is kept elsewhere.

/datadrive contains the following folders:

backup
documents
gaming
movies
music
os_images
pictures
programming
software-linux
software-windows
vmware
website

Important folders like movies, music, documents and datadrive itself have got shortcuts on the desktop, rather than belonging to the desktop. My home folder also has downloads and torrents folders, but these aren't on datadrive because everything in these two folders are moved to the relevant locations on datadrive after being sorted. This arrangement is therefore highly organized and segregated for maximum efficiency and safety.

[dbbolton]

my ~ reflects my bedroom. each thing is in an arbitrarily random spot, but i always remember exactly where each is located. kind of like a squirrel.

[Masoris]

Today, I installed mediawiki in my computer to organise these data. It is good than I think, I can upload and link all files in my computer, describe, categorize.

I think if there are filesystem which likes wiki, it will be best filesystem to organise my files.

[SeanHodges]

my ~ reflects my bedroom. each thing is in an arbitrarily random spot, but i always remember exactly where each is located. kind of like a squirrel.

lol good analogy