for people just starting, here's what I did to start organizing my file system after a few days of use. I have a little bit of coding background so I asked claude to treat my file system like computer architecture and follow SOLID principles. They are roughly summarized as follows: - Separation of concerns — each file has one job - DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) — data lives in one place - Single source of truth — no two files own the same information - Load only what you need — frequently accessed files stay shallow and small As example my claude.md file shrunk about 50%, it had grown from 30-40 lines to 100 or so. And the context file in another workspace went from 157 lines to 15. The goal isn't necessarily file reduction, it's efficiency and clarity. I went step by step through each directory with Claude to clean up stuff. At the end I had Claude summarize the process for me to share. attached are pictures of the .md file for easy viewing and I included the actual .md file of the process. But I'll also list it below: The Process Every refactor follows the same pattern: 1. Audit — list every job the file or directory is currently doing 2. Identify what's wrong — duplication, mixed concerns, wrong location 3. Propose before acting — show the before/after and confirm scope 4. Execute in order — move files first, update references second 5. Verify — make sure all links and paths still resolve The key question at each step: does this file have one job, and does it live where you'd naturally look for it? Prompts Used The actual prompts from this session, mapped to each process step. Audit "look at Claude.md architecture. analyse for separation of concerns and good computer architecture" "let's look at sound design context file first" Identify violations "looking at Claude.md Identity, workspaces and routing section. Is there overlap of function there?" "as a computer system architect taking into account separation of concerns, DRY, and clarity, what is the most efficient format?"

A few people asked about my .md based task management system so sharing it here: https://github.com/rocleemusic/TaskSystem I should also mention I have my main workspace as a github repo because I work between 2 different computers at work and home, so I have a hook command, when i type /sync on a computer it pulls from github and then runs the task system. the manual call is : What's my focus for today? I'm also still tweaking the retrospective section since it's only come up once since starting to use it. There's a full breakdown and examples in the repo, feel free to ask questions or if you find something that's broken, it might be missing some context from my main Claude.md I've also included a build-instructions.md so you can give that to claude and have it built anywhere. it's large cuz it includes the schemas for the child folder files and i wanted to make it easy to use as a single file. But it was built thinking about how I would like to interact with Claude (like Jarvis). The main entry points for me are an ideas.md at root where I can throw any idea I suddenly have, and the main chat at start of session to get the 1-3 things most important to do today. It's grown a bit to include recurring tasks and flag high-priority things. The other goal was to offload the burden of remember what's important or to figure out what I have energy to do after work. I also wanted it as pure markdown incase an online service went down, I can still view the full list or just my focus, it's just a text file on my system. The thinking behind this was largely due to some realizations after watching Jake's videos. If we think of AI as a programming language, then what is it's infrastructure? What do I need to actually build a full app for something that I can describe with plain language and have AI serve as the interpretation layer to the computer below? Any workflow is really just a program codified into a step by step task list.