You name it
Give it all a name
To help your mind organize your digital world, it is important to give everything meaningful names. You will have a better understanding of where and what makes up your digital space.
How I do it
Here are the names of some of my things.
Computers
have names of places, because you will store your thing
there, in a place.
pieye
: my raspberry pi that runspihole
, my eyes inside mylocal area network (LAN)
wonderland
: this is my current daily driver. Its name is wonderland so my screenshots look good when I share things thatalice
can do
External Storage
named in a way where you can identify it physically, so I know for sure what drive I am using in the file explorer
ROG1T
: My USB-C external storage, 1TB in size and installed in an Asus ROG enclosure.
For USB drives, I will colour the side of them with a sharpie and label them with that colour because otherwise they would all look the same.
K4GREEN
: My 4GB kingston USB drive with the green sharpie marks on itK4GOLD
: My 4GB kingston USB drive with the gold sharpie marks on it
Green for the money, gold for the honey.
Folders and Repos
named by description, with dashes instead of spaces.
There is no mistaking the contents of the folder/repo.
last-will-and-testament
linux-desktop-launchers
Entities
My replacement for Siri, Alexia and that other double agent.
(a folder for a category of projects)
has people names, because I address them in the same way.
ie: >alice gather
marsha
: a folder that contains the canadaecoin projectspandora
: a folder that contains the ecoincore projectsastro
: a folder that contains my personal projectsalice
: Alice is a reference version of a koad:io entity that I use to showcase the koad:io methodology.
summary
don't just play as a non participating observer; make your techno-space something that is truely yours; truely you.
Be intentional and keep it organized.