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!
Generally underscore _ works best for this, and should be viable for both OSes.
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
You could always do:
1_Pics
2_New Folder
3_Music
4_Games
A folder 1
AA folder 2
AAA folder 3
Who cares about readability and logic. My outlook work archives are a mess.
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.
This is an exact answer to the question and yet reading it makes my skin crawl. TIL I have opinions on file organization!
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.
