Currently I’m using #, but it causes issues with certain applications.

Example:

#Top Folder
Games
Music
New Folder
Pics

Currently using mostly Windows, but trying to transition to Linux, so a solution that works for both would be perfect.

Thanks, Lemmy!

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    7 months ago

    I use ! to sort to top, and Ω to sort to bottom. So far haven’t had any compatibility problems.

    For the curious: the use case for this is when you want to reduce nesting but also want a sort of “soft hierarchy” within a folder. I could separate my music folder into albums and playlists, but then I’d have a mostly empty folder, so instead I put both in the same directory and use prefix naming to sort them.

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      7 months ago

      This is an exact answer to the question and yet reading it makes my skin crawl. TIL I have opinions on file organization!

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        7 months ago

        I don’t usually “pin to top” or “pin to bottom” but I often have pseudo-folders that use a similar approach, for instance

        • Healthcare
        • Mail
        • Taxes 2020
        • Taxes 2021
        • (etc)
        • Work 2020 (Name of job)
        • Work 2021 (Name of job)
        • (etc)