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.
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!
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
- Taxes 2020
- Taxes 2021
- (etc)
- Work 2020 (Name of job)
- Work 2021 (Name of job)
- (etc)
A folder 1
AA folder 2
AAA folder 3
Who cares about readability and logic. My outlook work archives are a mess.
A dot.
Generally speaking: If you want folders to be on top, do it in your application. You should not prefix folders with “random characters” to make them listed in a specific place.
If you really want to, you could use
A FoldernamebecauseAis the lowest Unicode point character that is a letter (0x41) You could also use(0x40). I’ve seen@Foldernamein the wild a few times. I would not use numbers, because numbers are stupid, you also cannot easily change them if you want to have another folder between two already existing ones.Some applications might ignore non-letter characters (what is interpreted as a letter, depends on your locale) on sorting, though. So the safest would be
A.
