My "organizational" system for my podcasts is to keep these folders on my Desktop, periodically archiving them — usually motivated by running out of desktop screen width.
It has gotten increasingly ridiculous as my monitors have gotten bigger over time…
The visibility and misalignments are the point!
If they look nicer or aren’t visible in my face all the time, I’ll NEVER remember to archive them.
How many of you have some version of a junk-drawer/"to go through” folder on your Desktop?
And how often do you go through it?
…
Yeah, that’s what I thought!
Hidden junk is just junk you'll never deal with.
@jerrod @marcoarment I deal with this by creating a directory called Transient. No ambiguity, it is what it is called. All downloads go there. Then I have cron jobs that delete anything older than 2 weeks. If you need it longer you have 2 weeks to move it. If not, it will disappear. It solved the problem of "I have a new machine, what is actually important in this unholy mess of a directory?"
I now do this on every work and personal computer I ever touch.
https://devportaldocs.service-now.com/blog.do?p=/post/ot-transient-mac-directory/
This is not directly ServiceNow related, but a tip I stumbled across that has made my digital and work life much easier. It’s highly common that people have a “Downloads” directory that they choose not to back up. Why would you? It has big files that churn a lot, so that is just extra cruft in your Time Machine or other backup. However, unless you are very disciplined over time you get unruly chaos.
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