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.
I have so many “[x] to go through" folders in so many places. When have I gone through them? Never.
Eventually, one such folder (Stuff To Go Through) got big enough that I shifted it to my NAS, where of course I'll get to it really quickly, right?
Let's see what gems are in it:
- A 2011 invoice for Build & Analyze
- Instapaper 4.0 beta notes
- A photo from Tumblr's 2009 SXSW party
- An RSS icon that briefly looks like a guy sitting on a toilet
- My iPhone 4S receipt
…and so much more.
Marco Arment
Pascal Heinemann