Before Your Side Projects Multiply Into Chaos: An 8-Category Ledger and a Symlink Tree

Lily

Posted on Jul 14

• Originally published at dev.to

This is part of my "Claude Code environment" series. Last time I wrote about an autopilot that lets Claude Code improve itself autonomously and unattended. But if the "pile of automation scripts" that showed up there isn't organized, you can't even decide what to hand the autopilot. So this time the topic is the system I use to classify projects and manage where they live.

Counting the entries in my current ledger ~/PROJECTS.md, there are over 40 projects lined up — web apps, Chrome extensions, iOS apps, digital products, client work, AI tooling, PC automation, and OSS evaluations. Before things grew this far, I built a structure of "8 categories + a ledger + a symlink tree." This article is about that design.