Periodic table of files
File types grouped like elements: images, video, audio, documents, spreadsheets, slides, code and archives, each bay a different pastel with extension rules, under a periodic-table heading.
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File types grouped like elements: images, video, audio, documents, spreadsheets, slides, code and archives, each bay a different pastel with extension rules, under a periodic-table heading.
A tall, ruled filing desk with six clearly labeled columns and tiny sorting cues.
A squarified treemap where each bay's area is its share of the disk (photos, video, projects, music and the rest), with file-type rules and a clean-up checklist.
A wooden sorting frame of fifteen pigeonholes for household paperwork (bills, receipts, warranties, tax, the car, the pets), with a sorting rule and collection times.
A four-stage funnel where each band is a bay (every idea, worth a look, worth a try, doing it), narrowing as ideas earn their way down, with the rules for moving on.
A finished thing above the waterline and everything behind it below (drafts, research, dead ends, maintenance), with bays in the ice and a note on why nine-tenths stays hidden.
A pyramid of desktop needs, backed up at the base, then findable, tidy and finally beautiful, where each layer is a bay, with a checklist for working up from the bottom.
A library card catalogue in oak with twelve drawers from A to Z, each sorted by name with a brass pull, and a sample catalogue card for the desktop itself.
A household breaker panel with eight labelled circuits as bays and a toggle beside each (one has tripped), plus what to do when a breaker trips and a plea to label everything.
Eight sticky-note bays in a grid on a white wall, each on a tilted colour and held by a binder clip, with a colour code (yellow today, pink waiting, blue reference, green done) and the wall's rules.
Eight bays that carry real sorting rules (screenshots by name, invoices and receipts by keyword, installers, archives, images, documents, code, and audio and video by file type) so a local agent can tidy the desktop the same way every time.
Four exhibit bays under soft spotlights, each with a museum placard: dates, medium and a curator's note, for the photo archive, old projects, the screenshot collection and a single mysterious file.
Bays become stations on a transit map: red, blue and green lines run from inbox through drafting and review to shipped, drawn from the real positions of the bays so the lines always meet the stations.
Six tall steel lockers with vents and handles, one each for gym, work, school, games, travel and everything else, with the bottom of the screen left clear.
A flowchart for every new file: is it for a project, is it a receipt, or should it wait? Decision boxes are bays, joined by elbow connectors, with yes and no marked on the paths.
Six drawers split by letter (A–D, E–H, I–L, M–P, Q–T, U–Z), each sorted by name, drawn as folders with coloured tabs, with filing rules and a naming pattern that keeps them in order.
A plan-chest of eight drawers labelled by file extension, drawn on blueprint paper with an isometric grid and a title block. The rest of the sheet is open.
Six Russian-labelled bays in two columns with binary rain falling through the empty middle. Terminal green.
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