on how to arrange your files on your computer

These comprehensive narratives were found worthwhile:

• My txt setup
• Geek to Live: Organizing “My Documents”
• I do Mine Differently (blog comment)
• Dynamic Digital Organization
• The ZIGZAG
• Organizing my stuff
• The Design and Long-Term Use of a Personal Electronic Notebook: A Reflective Analysis

list of console-based task-management programs

list of usable textmode-based (terminal, cli, console) PIM software:

• Isaac Newton Organizer
• OrgMode
• DevTodo
• Remind
• todo.txt

organizing your home folder

the problem: apple’s software and the *nix programs all create their directories in the home folder. so, who rules over my home folder? certainly not me. however, to make things easy and just standard (no time lost due to fiddling with the machine) regarding security, backup and permission issues i’ll keep the one home folder for everything approach. how do i keep an organizing structure without:

• patching my whole software library to not use the home folder (too much work)
• getting disturbed by the apple-folders an dot-files
• vendor lock-in by relaying too heavy on spotlight specific features or meta-data to find things

the whole scheme should make some sense. sorting computer files by media type (i.e. images, movies) is complete without merit. it’s the same mindset that encodes web pages in ascii.

• sorting plainly by project sounds good, except it is not scaleable (the list will get too long someday)