Very Internet Person

took the day off the internet to start cleaning up my data hoard, update apps, etc. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ things were feeling unstable and i'm starting to have a hard time finding files in the chaos of everything i keep dumping in the downloads folder (╥_╥)

anyone have some good digital life organization tricks?

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Only keep files that spark joy!

Jokes aside, I remember using Hazel for macOS years ago to clean out my download files based on rules.

Once I started going through different work laptops and personal laptops at a faster pace I could manage, that went out the window and I just dump my download folder into my NAS which has several _unsorted (work laptop 2020) folders that are just collecting digital dust.

father, husband, css golfer, ux engineer, silently defining variables as /sdv sdv.wtf

Have you considered file versioning with git-lfs? Assuming the data is too large to store on GitHub or similar service, you could self host a GitHub clone on your NAS.

I don’t do this but it’s something I should too as I have the same tendency to keep versions that way, but mostly from not knowing git at the time

even marie kondo couldn't keep up with konmari in the end (๑>ᴗ<๑) 

it's gotten so bad for me that i've been having to use the color tags to tag final versions of things (⌒_⌒;) i don't know why i feel like i need to keep all previous versions

but yeah, the dump to nas method is sort of what i've been doing too but lately, i've been generating/downloading so many files that are needed in the present that that doesn't really work