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    1. 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
              └── ...
      
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