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One folder to rule them all
Matt Wood | Feb 3 2006
I've long dreamed of dumping the contents of my Byzantine Documents sub-folders into one, giant, unorganized pile, relying on Spotlight and ad hoc smart folders to find whatever I need. I've managed to do this with my email to great success, but I've held off on the Documents folder because I'm afraid it would require too much work renaming files, setting metadata, etc, defeating the whole purpose. Has anyone done this? Did you come up with a nifty naming convention, or do you just toss whatever you have in the junk drawer, renaming only if there is a conflict? 2 Comments
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 I do this. Client...Submitted by ggrozier on February 4, 2006 - 10:03am.
I do this. Client files are in their own folders, but other reference documents are just in the my documents folder. Every file name starts with a three-letter tag, like MGT for management, REC for recipes, TAX, etc, so they come up already sorted in explorer. Maybe someday I'll use the tags to set up new folders and put the documents into folders, but maybe not as I like being able to have all those docs visible in the one window, without having to go into the individual folders. Sometimes I follow the tags with the date (yymmdd) or another tag, and that works really well with search to find what I want. » POSTED IN:
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