What is wrong with
locate?i don’t know what it is
Locate is like
find, except it uses a cache (so finds things faster, provided your cache is up to date)
Welp, I just learned something new and useful by logging into Lemmy at 1:30 AM.
What does that do?
Ls - it lists all files in the current directory -l - It shows details like last edit. -R - It gets sorted by date. Head - it shows the ten last edited files
I use it very often myself, when I’m not sure about the file name.
I learned of the PARA method somewhere on Lemmy, and found it (or an adapted version) really well-suited for myself:
https://fortelabs.com/blog/para/
The short of it is to structure files in four categories:
Projects (with a definable scope and end)
Areas of responsibility (stuff that needs to be done repeatedly or constantly without any defined “end”, like timesheets or budget plans)
Resources (learning material, reusable assets)
Archive (finished / abandoned projects, areas no longer relevant for you, resources you’re not longer interested in)I suck at the “abandoned project” part, because I refuse to accept when I’m not gonna keep at something any more, and sometimes have stuff lingering in my “Areas” that should long be archived. I also have some things that are kinda perpetually ongoing developments without any clear “end”, although each increment of work does, so they occupy some hybrid space between Area and Project. I’ve put them in Projects anyway, because the point is to help me find things and making “Projects” the place to find “Things I’m working on” is easy enough.
Just install fd-find. I found it to be the most intuitive way to search for files
