For most of college, I’ve kept it simple: I’d create a directory in my home folder for each project, then eventually move older or inactive ones into ~/programming/. When I change devices or hit file size limits, I’ll compress and send things to my NAS.
This setup has worked pretty well so far. But now that I’m graduating and my projects keep stacking up, I’m starting to wonder if there’s a more efficient system out there.
Curious—how do you all organize and store your projects? Any tips or methodologies that have made your lives easier over time?
The only person I’ve talked to about this is my mentor who’s been programming since the 60s (started on the IBM 1620 and Bendix G15) and he just mostly keeps projects in directories in his home directory and uses his godly regular expressions skills to find things that way. Makes me wonder if I’m overthinking it…
i use
coding/languagename/project, where most if not all projects are git repos. so,coding/python/shira,coding/java/datetime examplesi have some wildcards for the languages, most of my serverside js stuff lives incoding/node-denoand most of my fullstack webdev stuff lives incoding/webdevi used to have the coding directory on a hdd, but moving it to an ssd helped a lot when installing things made with node, among other things.