Johnny.Decimal and the terminal

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Hey everyone

I just wanted to drop in and share with you a few things I’ve found helped me with using Johnny.Decimal and the terminal in a very productive way.

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The simplest and most fun one is this: I keep my projects in different folders. Some’re in dropbox, some in iCloud etc. I like the setup because it allows me to store (and sync) things where I need them. However, the pats can be quite long to time out. Before using any of the scripts suggested in the forum and on the website, I found a variable called CDPATH, and it is glorious. It’s basically PATH, but for your cd command.

So I can simply add all my Johnny.Decimal folders to my CDPATH and find them wherever I am on my machine. This is, what it looks like in my ~/.zshrc

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# CDPATH #
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# https://www.theunixschool.com/2012/04/what-is-cdpath.html
# https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/linux-command-line-tips-tricks-part-3-cdpath/

if [[ -o interactive ]]; then
    # Make sure the current directory is used first
    export CDPATH="."
    # Add Johnny.Decimal from iCloud
    export CDPATH="$CDPATH:$HOME/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/Documents"
    # Add Johnny.Decimal from DropBox
    export CDPATH="$CDPATH:$HOME/Dropbox/Johnny.Decimal"
fi

What did you find helpful in your setup?