Pretty much everything I do on a daily basis is in ~/something, immediately in my home directory. It used to be ~/Projects/something but even that felt too organized.
My home directory also accumulates an ungodly amount of shite over the course of mere months. I refuse to use /tmp — what if I need this again at some point in the future?
x.txt that gets shared in chat, PATCH_broken? for an idea given to me that I couldn’t apply to master, image0001.jpeg and friends showing screenshots I dumped into code review and forgot to delete, notes816_review.md thrown together in haste in a meeting, xx.txt, AAA, AAAA, AAAAAA, v.sh, vrewrite.py, etc etc.
Every few months something creeps in with a massive filename and breaks ls’s tidy columnar output. At that point I bundle everything up into a directory called ~/Projects/Scrap/2023-08-16.
Over time you end up with these lovey scrapbooks of mostly crap but occasional gems like screenshots of growth stats graphs from 2008 or a PDF of Leuchturm’s product catalogue in 2011 or an example.c that helped solve an obscure bug or a list of yays/nays for a house party.
I am a hoarder of the worst kind. Real digital hoarders at least have racks of drives to keep their house warm. This stuff is barely 400MB.
Aha, I repurposed the XDG download directory to point to ~/scratch/, since most of those files are downloaded in my browser. Now I dump everything into that directory that hasn't been sorted into my hierarchy system (which is divided into ownership or source, then type or relevancy).
Having strewn files about is so stressful for me, I have to squirrel it away in one place or it will drive me batty. I'd rather have one directory holding all of that crap, so if I ever have a "screw it" day, I can `rm -rf ~/scratch/*` and be done with it.
Have you tried to sit down and create a hierarchy that makes sense for your way of thinking? I spent a weekend working on it a year or two ago and it's made things SO much better. I won't suggest any particular structure, but here's a rundown of what I put together: https://imgur.com/a/QVehjvy
I love reading about people's directory or symlink structures.
Can confirm, as a digital hoarder with a medium size PC case with 8 16-20TB drives...No need for turning on the heat in the winter. Summer is a bit of an issue though!
That's close-ish to what I do, which is to have symlinks for frequently used directories in my home directory. And as most of those directories are actually on an NFS server, setting up a new PC is just mount the server, create the symlinks and then "cd someproject" or "cd ~/someproject' as usual (well, as long as you make sure you use the same UID/GID anyway).
My home directory also accumulates an ungodly amount of shite over the course of mere months. I refuse to use /tmp — what if I need this again at some point in the future?
x.txt that gets shared in chat, PATCH_broken? for an idea given to me that I couldn’t apply to master, image0001.jpeg and friends showing screenshots I dumped into code review and forgot to delete, notes816_review.md thrown together in haste in a meeting, xx.txt, AAA, AAAA, AAAAAA, v.sh, vrewrite.py, etc etc.
Every few months something creeps in with a massive filename and breaks ls’s tidy columnar output. At that point I bundle everything up into a directory called ~/Projects/Scrap/2023-08-16.
Over time you end up with these lovey scrapbooks of mostly crap but occasional gems like screenshots of growth stats graphs from 2008 or a PDF of Leuchturm’s product catalogue in 2011 or an example.c that helped solve an obscure bug or a list of yays/nays for a house party.
I am a hoarder of the worst kind. Real digital hoarders at least have racks of drives to keep their house warm. This stuff is barely 400MB.