@mrshll1001
@lemmygrad.mlI've just been getting up and running with a minimal distro lately and also discovered user-dirs.dirs
, so I'm no longer bound by the standard auto-generated Home folders.
Looking to share and learn how other comrades organise their home directories. Any tips appreciated, and also just seeing how other people like to use and organise ~/
:-)
Here's how I've organised ~/
on my new install so far:
* audio/
* audiobooks/
* music/
* podcasts/
* books/
* documents/
* dotfiles/
* downloads/
* images/
* photos/
* screenshots/
* wallpaper/
* opt/
* planner/
* projects/
* scripts/
* videos/
* workspace/
… plus all the hidden cruft that's placed in home by various programs. I do my best to enforce the XDG_CONFIG_HOME standard but I'm still in the process of moving stuff into .config/
.
Most of these are self-explanatory. opt/
is for software I build from source or otherwise not available in my package manager. planner/
is a git repo full of plain text and markdown files used to manage productivity and take notes. projects/
is my personal git repos containing stuff like my blog, creative writing etc. scripts/
is part of my $PATH and contains executable helper scripts such as setting a random wallpaper, fetching mail, etc. It's also a git repo. workspace/
is actually the XDG_DESKTOP_DIR
but renamed. My window manager doesn't put files/folders on the actual desktop so I use this space for repos I contribute to for my job as well as transient tasks which require a folder structure for getting something done but which will likely be removed later. Basically stuff that's not an actual personal "project" and I'm working on at the moment.
Things I'm thinking about:
downloads/
. There are three folders which start do
meaning tab-complete only works on the third letter. Not ideal. I've seen some people use incoming/
but I keep flip-flopping on whether I like this or not.dotfiles/
to .dotfiles/
but then, I use it a fair amount at the moment.articles
folder for academic articles and HTML blog posts I want to keep locally.Most of what I want to do on the web is read text, and while I love Firefox it's a bit of a resource hog for quick browsing. I've therefore been using links2 for a while. There is also Lynx, and Elinks and probably many more I'm not aware of.
links2 was somewhat of an arbitrary choice for me, so I was wondering if any comrades used terminal-based browsers and which ones they preferred? I'd value the feature of highlighting and copying text, but maybe that's a concern for the terminal emulator itself? links2 is fine so far but wondering if anyone was particularly passionate about their browser choice on the terminal.
(Note: I'm aware of Kristall, for Gemini/HTTP/Gopher but I'm specifically interested in a terminal-based web browser)