Ask HN: How do you organize your pdf library?

rolph · on Feb 16, 2020

by subject matter eg. FICT NFICT RSRC

then ISBN, then title.

collections like multivolume series, or encyclopedia sets are collated and treated like one item on stack

mthwsjc_ · on Feb 16, 2020

could you expand on this? Do you know of a tool that keeps the source files, or are you describing only a cataloging system like e.g. how to set up a spreadsheet?

rolph · on Feb 16, 2020

its the basis of a dewey decimal system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey_Decimal_Classification

it lends towards keeping a system in your head for catalogueing where in physical space an item on stack will be.

this could be where in a library or where in a NAS array or where in a directory structure or network domain.