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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/
andtutorial/
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/
andcommentary/
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 ditchedblog/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 indraft/
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/
andcommentary/
or merge them into something else?note/
are short and wouldn't feel right for longer ramblings. I am not a big fan ofwritings/
as everything is a "writing",prose/
also doesn't quite fit and so far the only one I've sort of liked isreflection/
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 └── ...
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