External Drive Taxonomy

External Drive Taxonomy
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Artwork - Artwork created by others.
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Brushes - for Photoshop
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Business Cards - Scans of business cards I liked
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Buttons - Web buttons
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Color Schemes - A few hundred well-designed color
schemes
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Comics - Mostly Oni Press free downloads
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[One folder per comic]
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Compositions - Celtic, Pixelart, Fractals, etc
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Design - Interesting design artifacts
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Fonts - Entirely too many typefaces
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Gaming - Dungeons and Dragons character sketches, maps,
and worlds
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[One folder for each character, map, or world]
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Icons - Mirror of pixadex archive on my laptop
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Language - Unicode charts, mainly
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Logos - Logos I've found online which are well designed
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Magazines - Mainly 2D Artist, and ArtzMania
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[One folder per magazine]
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Paintings - mostly René Magritte
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[One folder per artist]
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Photography - Useful, open license stock photography
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Templates - Useful, open license design templates, mostly
for the web
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Themes - Application themes for shapeshifter, wordpress,

and the likes
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[One folder for each application]
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Vector - Well-done vector artwork
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Wallpapers - Artistic, Fantasy, Minimalist,
Photomanipulated, Religious, Trendy, Vertical, and
Widescreen
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[One folder for each wallpaper type]
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Backups - Full and incremental backups of our computers.
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Workstations - the laptop, and the two desktops
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[One folder for each workstation]
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Servers - all seven of them
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[One folder for each server]
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Handhelds - the palm pilot which I never use
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[One folder for each handheld]
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iPods - both mine and my partner’s
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[One folder for each iPod]
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Conﬁgurations - routers, switches
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[One folder for each device]
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Data - Useful raw data.
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Standards - Mostly Federal Information Processing Service
(FIPS) data
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Airport Codes - and their closest cities
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Cities - latitude and longitude, administrative
divisions, county, state, and country
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Country Codes - ISO standard
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Languages - ISO standard
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Postal Codes - Center latitude and longitude, county,

state, and country
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Time Zones - ISO standard
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Ephemeris - Astrological ephemeris data
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Maps - 1.5 Gb of JPEG and PNG maps
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[One folder for each continent]
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[One folder for each country]
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[One folder for each region]
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[One folder for each city]
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Conversions - Unit conversion tables and charts
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Mathematical - Constants, tables, and equations
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Movies - All open-license video material which I'd like to keep
around.
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Clips - Short video clips for mixing
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Documentaries - Full documentaries
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[One folder for each topic]
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Music Videos - Good music videos
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[One folder for each artist]
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Video Blogs - Archive of good video blog posts
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[One folder for each blogger]
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Yoga - Open-license exercise videos
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Music - Music which I own, or is under open license.
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Albums - Full albums
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[One folder for each artist]
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[One folder for each album]
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Orphans - Single tracks from the iTunes Music Store
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[One folder for each artist]
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Samples - Samples for mixing

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Spoken - Spoken word
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Comedy - Stand-up routines
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Educational - Recorded lectures from around the
world
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[One folder for each university]
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[One folder for each course]
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Tablature - Guitar, bass, and mandolin tablature
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[One folder for each artist]
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Personal - Mirror of the "Archive" folder on my laptop's desktop.
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Artwork - Every art and design artifact I’ve made that I
consistently use or reference, and to which I have legal rights
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Album Covers - for mix CDs I’ve made
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Avatars - User images for websites
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Design - Design artifacts
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Paintings - Digital paintings
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Sketches - Scans of pencil and paper works
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Vector - Vector art
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Wallpapers - Ones I’ve made
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Business - All my non-day-job-work related stuff
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[One folder for each freelance job]
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Agreements
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Contracts
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Forms
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Plans
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Procedures
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Schedules
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Codebase - Every line of code I’ve ever written that I either

open-sourced, or to which I have legal rights.
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[One folder for each application]
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Druidry - Religious stuff. More information here.
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Finances - Personal and household financial records.
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Accounts - One folder for each bank account
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Plans - Financial planning artifacts
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Receipts - Major purchase receipts
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Taxes - Personal income tax returns
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Gaming
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Dungeons and Dragons - Character sheets, quests, and
worlds
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Health
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Medical - Personal and household medical records
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Preparedness - Disaster preparedness kits and plans
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Yoga - Asana references
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Infrastructure
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Architectures - Home network and systems
architectures
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Inventories - Home inventory, with serial numbers
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PGP Keys - Public and Private PGP keys
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Servers - Shell accounts, VNC, and RDC connections
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Legal
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Auto - Car loan information and maintenance history
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Domestic - Mortgage, lease information
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Insurance - Auto and home insurance information
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Warranties - For all major purchases
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Portfolios - Full portfolios and resumes for my professional life

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Design - graphic design, typography, illustration
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Engineering - software, systems, electrical, mechanical
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Music - guitar, piano, vocal
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Research - research and development histories
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Writing - authoring, editing, journalism
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Recipes - Things I like to cook.
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Travel - Trips I’m planning, and logs from trips I’ve taken
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[One folder for each trip]
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University
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[One folder for each university]
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Courses - Information on each course
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Degree Plan
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Memberships - Information on special interest
groups
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Transcripts - Scans of official transcripts
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Websites - Full sources and deployed mirrors for every
website I’ve created.
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[One folder for each website]
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Database - Mirror of deployed databases
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Graphics - Graphic design artifacts
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Public - Mirror of deployed code and images
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Writing - Articles, journals, novels, poetry, prose, and theses
I’ve written, to which I have legal rights.
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Relationships - Archive data on everyone I know.
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[One folder for each person]
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Chatlogs - Logs of every IRC, AIM, Jabber, and ICQ chat
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Email - Copies of every email sent or received

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Documents - Any material I've worked on with them
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Software - Freeware, Shareware, and Open License software I use.
Each third-level folder listed has "AIX", "FreeBSD", "Linux", "Mac OS
9", "Mac OS X", "Palm OS", "Solaris", "Source", "Win CE", and
"Windows" folders underneath, as appropriate.
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Database - SQL Database Connectors, Interfaces, and Servers
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Connectors - ODBC connectors
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Interfaces - Database front-ends and administration
tools
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Servers - Database servers
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Desktop - Software which is typically used on a workstation
or laptop
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Academic - Keeping of academic records
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Bookmarks - Syncing of bookmarks to Web2.0 services
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Calendars
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Calculators
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Clocks
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Editors - Text editors, primarily
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Financial - Account management and synchronizing
software
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Launchers - Application launchers
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Outliners
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Pagers - Desktop pagers (the kind that let you have
more than one desktop per computer)
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Screen Savers
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Search - Local search applications
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Theming - Applications which change the way things

look
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Viewers - Data viewers, for applications of which I don't
have full versions.
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Weather
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Window Managers - Primarily for the BSD, Linux, and
Source-built systems
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Education
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HAM Radio - Study materials, tests
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Language - Language tutorials and references
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Music - Applications to teach scales, guitar fingerings,
and chord patterns
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Programming - Software which helps in learning to
code
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Religion - Software which helps with religious studies
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Games
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Arcade
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Board Games
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Card Games
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Console - Nethack, and friends
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First Person
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Puzzles
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Roleplaying - Applications to manage character sheets
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Simulation
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Strategy
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Internet - Software which helps connect workstations to the
internet
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Blogging - Software for writing and hosting weblogs

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Chat - AIM, IRC, Jabber, ICQ, Yahoo, and MSN chat
clients
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CMS - Various content management systems
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Directories - LDAP software
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DNS - Domain Name System software
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Email - Email clients and servers
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File Transfer - FTP, SCP, and SFTP software
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RADIUS - Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service
tools
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RSS Aggregators - Tools to read RSS feeds and parse
OPML
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Search - Online search tools
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Telephony - Internet telephony tools
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Twittering - Tools to post tweets to twitter
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Usenet - Tools to read and post to Usenet
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Web Browsers - Applications and toolkits for viewing
websites
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Web Servers - Applications and toolkits for hosting
websites
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Multimedia - Software to work with audio, video, and still
media
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Audio - Tools for audio processing
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Codecs - Audio / Video compression and decompression
tools
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Color Theory - Color wheels, choosers, and guides
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Demos - 1980s and 90s DOS Demo scene
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Graphics - Graphics design tools

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Scrobbling - Tools to post music listening habits to
last.fm
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Typography - Tools to create and modify typefaces
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Video - Video processing applications
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Ofice
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CRM - Customer Relationship Management tools
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Diagramming - Mind mapping and relationship charts
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Document Management - Personal wikis, document
sorters
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eCommerce - eCommerce aplications, server and
client-side
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Fax
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Ofice Suites - OpenOffice.org
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Outlining
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Productivity - Task and attention management
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Project Management - Gantt chart applications
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Time Tracking - Time and billing calculation
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Operating Systems - The most recent version of my two
favorite server-side operating systems, and a pretty cool RTOS
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Debian Linux
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FreeBSD
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QNX
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Portable - Portable applications (the kind you keep on a USB
keychain)
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Programming - Applications used to create other
applications
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Compilers - For about two dozen languages

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Components - Useful bindings, libraries, modules, and
plugins
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Data Integrity - CRC, MD5, and SHA-1 utilities
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Documentation - Code documentation managers and
generators
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Environments - Integrated development environments
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Frameworks - Useful development frameworks (GTK,
QT, .Net, Rails, etc)
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Installers - Applications which build installers
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Interpreters - Executables for a dozen interpreted
languages
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Tools - Wrappers, SDKs, profilers, etc
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Versioning - Version control tools (CVS, Subversion,
git, etc)
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Scientiﬁc
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Astronomy - Sky maps and star charts
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Distributed Computation - clients, servers, and kernel
modules
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Electronics - circuit simulation and board layout tools
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Forensics - computer and network forensics, mainly
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Geography - Desktop mapping software
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Graphing - Chart and graph applications
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Linguistics - Computational phonology, grammar, and
syntax tools
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Mathematics - Computer math tools
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Radio Frequency - RF Modeling environments
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Simulations - Mostly cellular automata

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Security
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Adware Scanners - Applications which remove adware
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Cryptography - Applications which encrypt and
decrypt data and transmissions
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Firewalls - also proxies and network address translation
tools
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Monitoring - System and network status tools
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Password Generators - Applications to generate
random passwords
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Spyware Scanners - Applications which remove
spyware
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Secure Shell - OpenSSH clients and servers
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Virus Scanners - Applications which remove viruses
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VPN - Virtual Private Network servers and clients
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System
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Access Control - User authentication systems
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Accessibility - Tools which make systems more usable
to everyone
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Backup - Data backup and synchronization tools
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Benchmarks - System benchmark tools
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Compression - Data compression tools
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Conﬁguration - System configuration editors
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Drivers - Hard-to-find drivers for most of my hardware
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Drives and Partitions - Parition and block-level data
editors
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Emulation - Applications which allow execution of non-
native binaries

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File Management - finder and explorer-like utilities
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Information - System information tools
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Keymapping - Applications which allow you to type in
other languages
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Modem - Mainly BBS clients and servers
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Networking - Network information tools
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Printing - Printer drivers
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Remote Control - VNC, RDC, and similar tools
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Security - Server hardening and intrusion detection
tools
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Shells - BASH, ASH, SH, Korn, and the like
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Terminals - Terminal emulators and TTYs
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Wireless - 802.11 and Bluetooth tools
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Texts - Free and Open-license text ﬁles, articles, and books.
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Art - Art, typography, photography, and design texts and
tutorials
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Business - Various business texts
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[One folder per branch of study]
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Computing - Documentation and essays on the computing
inter-discipline
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Architecture - Information, network, and systems
architecture
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Backups - Documentation on backup software
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Databases - SQL documentation
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Design - Web design texts
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Hardware - Hardware support information
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Markup - HTML, XHTML, and Microformats

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Networking - Texts on how properly to build networks
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Presentation - CSS information
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Security - Various computer security texts
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Serialization - RSS and YAML documentation
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Software - Software support documentation
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Standards - IEEE standards, RFCs, and ISO standards
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Systems - Texts and guides specific to operating
systems
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Theory - Various computing theory texts
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Engineering - Various engineering texts
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[One folder per branch of study]
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Gaming - Chess, GURPS, and Dungeons and Dragons SRDs
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Health - Diet, exercise, preparedness, and productivity texts
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History - Various interesting history texts and essays
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Law - Sample contracts, mainly
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Literature - Works of lasting impact, mainly from Project
Gutenberg
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[One folder per language]
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[One folder per author]
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Mathematics - Mathematic Texts
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[One folder per branch of study]
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Military - Training manuals and handbooks
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[One folder per country]
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[One folder per armed forces branch]
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Music - Scale and chord charts
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[One folder per instrument]
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Philosophy - Various interesting philosophy texts

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Politics - Political essays and theories
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[One folder per topic]
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Productivity - GTD-related materials
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Religion - Religious texts
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[One folder per religion]
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Science - Scientific texts
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[One folder per branch of study]
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Travel - Books about places