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A guide to sorting and managing files

Everyone will have their own way of sorting but it is handy to see some examples and take your own take on it. For reference here is what I settled with:

Folders

Placed on my HDD away from my operating system

F:\Home\...

Documents

- Syncthing

- Work

- School

- Fonts

- ISO (for distros)

- Blender (project files)

Downloads

Games

Music

- ~Artist

-- ~Album

Pictures

ROM

Help categorizing from here

- Nintendo

- Personal computers

-- DOS

-- MSX

-- PC-98

Videos

- Movies

- TV Shows

- Anime

- Music Video

- Youtube

E:\Backup\...

- Phone

Linking external folders to your home folder

WIP

Applications to help with messy file management

Czkawka - Linux, Windows, Mac

"Multi functional app to find duplicates, empty folders, similar images etc."

Organizer - Linux

organize your files into categories

Windows alternative: DropIt (you have to manually set it up)

qimgv - Windows, Linux

Image viewer with a quick move/copy function (press c or m and click the folder icons to set paths)

Hydrus - Windows, Linux, Mac

"organises your files into an internal database and browses them with tags instead of folders, a little like a booru on your desktop"

Searching your entire filesystem

SwiftSearch - Windows

Search on enter

Everything (non-free) - Windows

Search as you type

FSearch - Linux

Compressing

File Converter - Windows

ImageMagick - Linux, Windows (install with Scoop)

- Useful for mogrify

Cleaning download folders

Clearing cache and unused packages

flatpak uninstall --unused

pacman orphan packages