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I've mentioned this before on HN.

- I've automated taking screenshots of my laptop screen + webcam and fuse them and organise by year/month/day/hour. This gives me a nice lookback at what I was doing on a particular day (assuming I was at my laptop, which I mostly am).

- I also send my GPS location each 30 minutes, again from my laptop, into a database for a nice visualisation where I was at some time.

- Automatically move files from my laptop into various folders which are stages of "stagnation" of the file, makes it easy to keep stuff clean.

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Pretty neat, but that could be dangerous if someone got ahold of that information.

I guess, in reality the information is quite boring.

What does the stagnation folder structure look like? I have a large data sorting operation of my own to do, and that approach sounds quite maintainable going forward.

It's nothing special at all, just a differently named folders essentially.

The flow is basically:

- All files on desktop older than 1-2 days is moved into Downloads folder (very busy and anything goes in there)

- All files what have been in Downloads folder after ~30 days are moved to "need review" folder.

- Nothing special about "need review" folder, but it's present in my dock so I see if a "new" file has arrived for needing review.

The nice thing about it is that the files slowly trickle into my view, so I usually only have to deal with a few files at a time which makes it very easy to see if I need to throw it or move it somewhere more permanent. My downloads folder used to slowly build up to massive sizes and I usually didn't have the effort to categorise it so it went into some "downloads-date" folder (since there miiiight be something I wanted to save inside it). This no longer happens.

I like 1 and 3. Is it open sourced?

Kind of, here is code and info about the webcam+screenshots http://jontelang.com/blog/2015/08/15/automating-screenshots..... Here's my latest used code (which includes folder separation because I had thousands of images taking ages to load https://gist.github.com/jontelang/f0634a98590fe56f4d7a7c9059...)

And here is some information about the file order-keeping. A bit wall of texty. I didn't program this myself, I use Hazel (super recommended app) http://jontelang.com/blog/2015/08/17/hazel-is-great.html

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