I'm like this, without the extra added steps. I have 2500 unread emails in my inbox, I skim over what's new in the inbox and read what I want that's it, the important thing is search.
I've found this is applying to almost everything I do for a while now. Started with gmail, its google after all I can just search.
I don't "organise" my inbox, if I need to find an email I'll search for it.
I have over 70 tabs open in chrome, if I need to find a tab I search for it. Using vimium I press shift+t and just search for the tab, if it doesn't find the tab it opens a google search for it.
I don't ever organise my files/downloads folder, If I need to find a file I command+space and write open yellow-subm. Using Alfred
I don't bother with folder structure organisation, every project is a folder under ~/src folder, if I need to go to the server project I write on the terminal `z serv`, and it cd's into the folder. Using z[0].
I don't bother with which buffers are open in vim, if I need to see the file drink something controller file I press <leader>t and write drikcontrol. Using command-t
If I want to put the computer to sleep I press command+space and write sleep. Again Alfred
I think what changed for me is I don't really care about the structure/organisation I care about getting the thing I want. I either want to find something (search), or do something (command).
I guess the important thing is the organisation is implicit on the name/contents of the thing I'm looking for.
The only problem that rises from this is if a co-worker asks where a code file is I usually don't know, but then I solve that by <leader>t name-of-file and check the path.
I've found this is applying to almost everything I do for a while now. Started with gmail, its google after all I can just search.
I don't "organise" my inbox, if I need to find an email I'll search for it.
I have over 70 tabs open in chrome, if I need to find a tab I search for it. Using vimium I press shift+t and just search for the tab, if it doesn't find the tab it opens a google search for it.
I don't ever organise my files/downloads folder, If I need to find a file I command+space and write open yellow-subm. Using Alfred
I don't bother with folder structure organisation, every project is a folder under ~/src folder, if I need to go to the server project I write on the terminal `z serv`, and it cd's into the folder. Using z[0].
I don't bother with which buffers are open in vim, if I need to see the file drink something controller file I press <leader>t and write drikcontrol. Using command-t
If I want to put the computer to sleep I press command+space and write sleep. Again Alfred
I think what changed for me is I don't really care about the structure/organisation I care about getting the thing I want. I either want to find something (search), or do something (command).
I guess the important thing is the organisation is implicit on the name/contents of the thing I'm looking for.
The only problem that rises from this is if a co-worker asks where a code file is I usually don't know, but then I solve that by <leader>t name-of-file and check the path.
[0] https://github.com/rupa/z