A while back, I made a shortcut using Apple Script that opens up all the folders in Finder where stuff collects. When I run it, an obnoxious amount of folders pop up. I am forced to close them all one by one, which is really annoying. But while I am in each folder, tasks and ideas are getting into my flow a lot more. My folder structure is getting a lot flatter. A lot of images are getting converted into text and put into where they should actually be.

Weekly might be a lot more sane for a folder cleaning task like this. I do think daily is making doing this a little less anxiety-producing though. Making decisions on a couple of files a day is a lot less mental stress than a week’s worth of stuff.

As a bonus, processing image files is breaking me of the habit of taking a screenshot to remember something. It is quick to take one, but it is just kicking things down the line for future me.