Desktop Cleaning
Over on Minimal Linux, readers have been submitting scripts to tidy up the Desktop into nice dated folders, inspired by Minimal Mac’s pointer to Desktoday
I don’t have a desktop on Linux, but ~/temp serves a similar purpose. Rather than tidy it, I run the following once a week via cron:
rm -rf /home/jack/temp/*
Similarly, on the Mac, Hazel trashes all files on my Desktop or in Downloads as soon as they’re a week old.
My reasoning being that if I haven’t done anything with a file within a week of downloading or creating it, I probably didn’t need it in the first place. And, of course, if you know your computer is planning to delete your stuff on a regular basis, you make sure the stuff you do want to keep is promptly filed where it belongs.
