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by LVB 953 days ago
My main, albeit simple, local organizational pattern is: 1. everything under ~/dev 2. all projects are their own folder under a year folder. And if I ever restart work on something older, I move it to the current year.

I have hundreds of project folders and it’s helpful day-to-day to just be able to look in ~/dev/2023 for current stuff. But it is also relatively easy to find older things since I have a sense of roughly how far back they are. Making a new year folder right around Jan 1 and rolling forward active work is always a treat.
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andai 953 days ago
>it is also relatively easy to find older things since I have a sense of roughly how far back they are

I have a ~/dev/file_list.txt, generated by

    find . > file_list.txt
(I think I might have added a flag to exclude node_modules...)

I drag the output file into Sublime Text, so I can search the entire directory instantly. (It also works for entire hard drives!)

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