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# My $HOME
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*2018-09-03*
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Recently, I came across a blog posting titled "[$HOME, sweet $HOME](https://morr.cc/home-sweet-home/)", where [@blinry](https://morr.cc/) advocates for structuring your `$HOME` directory based on projects and their activity.
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After reading this I felt inspired to finally have a look at the mess I made of my `$HOME` in the last years.
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A few things about my old `$HOME`:
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- ``Documents`` contained basically everything I had accumulated during the last years besides music, videos, pictures and source code.
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- ``projects`` just contained one gigantic folder of all projects that I ever worked on.
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- the rest was based on the default [xdg-user-dirs](https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-user-dirs/)
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If you sorted the files by file type like the default XDG directories suggest, files from one project may be scattered across many different directories.
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So my goal for the new `$HOME` was to have a clean directory structure where:
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- it is obvious where to place new files
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- paths do not become too long to type out
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- the directory structure relates to how I work
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A quick tour of my new `$HOME`:
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- `lib` for immutable files
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- `src` for mutable files
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- `tag` stores links to projects
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- `tmp` for unsorted files and downloads
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## The project directory
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All of my projects are stored in `src`.
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I use a flat directory structure, where every project has its own subdirectory based on its name.
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Projects can become part of one or more larger contexts through the use of tags.
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## Tags
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Tag directories are stored in `tag`.
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Each directory stores symbolic links to parts of a project that can be distributed around `lib` and `src`.
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One possible use for the tag directories is creating workbenches.
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If I use some directories in `lib` or `src` in different contexts, `tag` can be used to include them in multiple workbenches.
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An example workflow
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```sh
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$ cd tag
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$ mkdir -p course1/examples
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$ ln -s ~/src/example1 course1/examples/
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$ ln -s ~/lib/courses/course1 course1/material
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$ rm -r course1
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```
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I create new tags for various reasons, but mostly one for each larger context (e.g. work, hobbies, admin foo, thesis, courseXY) and some more for tracking project activity.
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There are four different tags in `tag` directory right now for tracking project activity:
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- permanent
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- active
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- hold
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- dead
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## Workflow
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