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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Generally underscore _ works best for this, and should be viable for both OSes.

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Personally, my brain manages to filter out anything with a leading underscore (I don’t know the origin offhand, I think some system I worked with at some point used those on files that I knew I didn’t care about). So when coworkers use leading underscores it slows me down a bit.

It does work though

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Yes, underscores or leading digits (for ordering eg. 000_ 001_ 002_) works well.

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You could always do:

1_Pics
2_New Folder
3_Music
4_Games
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A folder 1

AA folder 2

AAA folder 3

Who cares about readability and logic. My outlook work archives are a mess.

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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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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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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)
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Just saying that in Nemo (or whatever the cinnamon file manager is called) you can pin a file/folder to the top through the right click menu, unless I’m remembering wrong. But I haven’t used this feature at all so I don’t know how well it works for any use case.

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