Thoughts on Notes/Blog/Personal Website Directory Structure
:wave: everyone, I've been thinking about where to put non-technical blog posts and what to call them since, so far, I have bookmark/, cheatsheet/, howto/, note/, snippet/ and tutorial/ folders...
:wave: everyone, I've been thinking about where to put non-technical blog posts and what to call them since, so far, I have bookmark/
, cheatsheet/
, howto/
, note/
, snippet/
and tutorial/
folders already[1].
I think those cover most of the things I like writing about and I intend to share, but I also enjoy poetry, analyzing movies, political commentary and writing an essay here and there.
Following from that, I kept essay/
, poem/
and commentary/
around for whenever I felt like sharing some of my non-technical writings, but I don't like those folders :smile:. They seem way too granular, more akin to tags than categories, both of which are contained in each file's metadata.
Tags, however, don't feel like a "pillar"/category of a Zettelkasten/ramblings/thoughts crate. They're empty at the moment and in draft/
, so it's the perfect chance to do some re-structuring and avoid the issues I faced when I ditched blog/category
and chose the current structure.
In case you're asking yourself why I didn't put everything in the same folder, as they reflect categories and each .md
file has category metadata already, it's because the drafts in draft/
became unmanageable (+120). So, in an effort to give myself an easier way to navigate and edit, I decided /folders
were going to reflect the categories that existed. I'm aware it can be that after note #50 or something I have the same problem, and thus it wouldn't have made a difference whether notes were together with tutorials or not. I've decided to deal with that problem when it arises :)
I'd be very interested in hearing your thoughts! Would you keep essay/
, poem/
and commentary/
or merge them into something else? note/
are short and wouldn't feel right for longer ramblings. I am not a big fan of writings/
as everything is a "writing", prose/
also doesn't quite fit and so far the only one I've sort of liked is reflection/
since essays, poems, and comments on happenings are the result of reflecting.
/rant over, I know, I'm overthinking it. Let those not guilty throw the first stone :)
[1] I've removed quite a bit of the irrelevant stuff but kept what I believe is relevant, but feel free to ask away in case something necessary is missing.
.
├── bookmark/
│ └── sample.md
├── cheatsheet/
│ ├── sample.md
│ └── sample.md-data
├── commentary/
├── draft/
│ ├── bookmark/
│ │ └── sample.md
│ ├── cheatsheet/
│ │ └── sample.md
│ └── ...
├── essay/
├── extra/
│ ├── archive/
│ ├── blob/
│ └── robots.txt
├── howto/
│ └── sample.md
├── note/
│ └── sample.md
├── poem
├── private/
│ └── sample.md
├── snippet/
│ └── sample.md
└── tutorial/
├── sample.md
└── sample.md-data/
├── sample.png
└── ...