my-file-system.md

My file system

I have an intricate system where I put files according to their purpose and context thus I always know where to find them. And I access everything from Alfred.

~/Desktop

My Desktop is nearly always empty. It acts as a kind of temp folder where every file that is put there needs to be acted upon and either moved to some other place in my system or deleted.

I use this workflow to completely trash everything inside ~/Desktop with one hotkey. I also use this workflow to quickly scan the contents of ~/Desktop from Alfred.

~/Downloads

I try to keep this folder like Desktop always empty. This is the folder where I download things to from the browser as well as other places.

I use this workflow to scan through contents of it from Alfred.

~/clones

I often love checking out various GitHub repos. Everything that I clone, I clone into this folder. I use km macro that will clone the repo that is currently open in my Safari tab. It will put the repo in ~/clones and then open it in VS Code. I also have similar macros that will only clone the repo or clone the repo and open it in Sublime Text.

I then filter contents of the folder with this workflow.

~/Documents

Most of the files are put into ~/Documents which is synced with iCloud. Here is how my Documents folder looks like:

~/Documents
❯ exa
Actual App AudioBooks Books Config Design History PDFs Pixave Research papers src

~/Documents/src

Everything that is code is put into this folder.

~/Documents/src
❯ exa
alfred  bots  curated  games  languages  learn  libs  ml  orgs  other  personal  practice  scripts  test  vim-plugins  web  Xcode

~/Documents/src/orgs

Inside this folder I keep all the organizations I am working on.

~/Documents/src/orgs
❯ exa
learn-anything deedmob

~/Documents/src/test

Inside this folder I have a bunch of language specific folders that usually just have one file inside them with the extension of that language. Here is how that folder looks for me:

~/Documents/src/test
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bash-test  c-test  clojure-test  go-test  haskell-test  js-test  lisp-test  python-test  ruby-test  ts-test

I then have KM macros to quickly open these files:

And I use VS Code CodeRunner extension to quickly run code in those specific files. Makes prototyping ideas and libraries a breeze.

~/Documents/src/Xcode

Contains all my Swift iOS and macOS projects.

~/Documents/src/learn

I use the folder to learn new technologies, languages and things. Perhaps I am completing some course or going through some book that has exercises. I put it there.

~/Documents/src/learn
❯ exa
algo-learn  go-learn  graphics-learn  kuber-learn  ml-learn  react-learn  stats-learn  ts-intro  ts-learn  tsc-react-learn

~/Documents/src/alfred

All my Alfred workflows are placed there. And each one is symlinked with workflow install.

~/Documents/src/alfred
❯ exa
alfred-ask-create-share  alfred-awesome-lists  alfred-github  alfred-learn-anything  alfred-my-mind  alfred-npm  alfred-trello  alfred-web-searches  small-workflows

~/Documents/src/curated

Keep all the GitHub curated lists there where all edits to the README.md files is automatically committed with Hazel.

~/Documents/src/curated
❯ exa
alfred-workflows  cheat-sheets        courses        find-work           games   ios-apps    movies       privacy-respecting     quotes        research-papers    slack-groups    talks      websites
blogs             chrome-extensions   curated-lists  firefox-extensions  humans  macos-apps  newsletters  programming-languages  reddit        safari-extensions  spectrum        telegram   youtube
books             command-line-tools  documentaries  forums              images  mindmaps    podcasts     quora                  reddit-multi  series             stack-exchange  tv-series