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How to Organize My Documents and Private Folders

15. Jan. 2008 von Maik Preßler in How-To

A question i’ve been dealing with many times is how to organize my files in an uncomplicated but also easy-to-work-with way. On Donationcoder there’s a discussion about the My Documents quest, read the entry here. Lifehacker has also some interesting thougts on organizing the very own files, worth to have a look.

The most popular approaches for doc orga are:

• separating private/work/etc.
• alphabetical ordering
• time dependent (in progress/done)
• labeled files (i.e. tag2find)

There might be no perfect soloution how to organize as this is a very personal decision. But even if you think about it just for some minutes and and can improve it a litte bit, your daily workflow can be pushed one more level forward.

By the way, in this article i stumbled uopn a useful tool: The Hard Drive Janitor. This litte script can delete files in a specified folder after a given period of time. So apply it to your temp or download folder and stop deleting install files and temp stuff you’ve just needed for some days.

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