I've been chipping away at moving to my own flavor of JD over the last year. One of the first things I did was add one higher level with broad categories, numbered as x00. Tis way things are broadly organized, I still don't have to 'fundamentally' go more than two folders deep or 'have more than 100 folders', but I can use it for my entire work life despite having 100-ish actual technical projects.
Backporting old docs to this system is a real chore and honestly, I haven't been very disciplined about that part, besides moving old Project folders under the top-level Projects folder. But this is always going to be an issue with any new filing system, and I don't think there's a lot of value in doing it. Maybe would be an interesting programmatic exercise. But I, hotsauceror at his keyboard, am NOT going to go and retroactively assign a 753.0026 etc identifier to every document lol...
I have recently added a 000 - Logs folder for places like coding journals, another trendy suggestion that pops up here on HN from time to time that I may or may not stick with...
Backporting old docs to this system is a real chore and honestly, I haven't been very disciplined about that part, besides moving old Project folders under the top-level Projects folder. But this is always going to be an issue with any new filing system, and I don't think there's a lot of value in doing it. Maybe would be an interesting programmatic exercise. But I, hotsauceror at his keyboard, am NOT going to go and retroactively assign a 753.0026 etc identifier to every document lol...
My rough, rough hierarchy is as follows:
I have recently added a 000 - Logs folder for places like coding journals, another trendy suggestion that pops up here on HN from time to time that I may or may not stick with...