Personal file system structure and information

Clone the repo in /Users/<your_user>, rename the directory to fs, and delete the .git directory.

• archive/
  • for backups (online accounts, local computers, phones) or projects/areas/resources that are no longer active
• boxes/
  • spheres of activity maintained long term (health, finances, travel, hobbies, productivity, apartment, etc.)
  • Update 1/6/24: I haven't really used this much, but I'll keep it because it's flexible.
• docs/
  • documents, PDFs, records, notes, scans, whatever else
• media/
  • photos and videos
• projects/
  • git repositories, coding projects, etc.
• sync/
  • this is my Google Drive backup and sync folder
• tmp/
  • a holding place for anything temporary

Tips:

• only categorize into a folder when >= 4 things can be grouped
• document names are in the format YYYY-MM-DD - Description.extension, e.g. 2020-02-06 - Fitness Assessment Results.pdf