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New to using the system, but I've been interested in it for a few years.

My wife and I are about to kick off the new organization style, but we have a question: do we use multiple sets of 43 folders, or try to manage both our lives with one set?

I can only imagine that we should be using multiple sets, but she's an engineer and demands proof before moving on to next steps.

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command line script for opening textmate projects

hello. I organize all my work in TextMate projects, so, for example, a current project of mine called WolfSheep has an associated TextMate project called

PJWolfSheep.tmproj

I wrote a little script that will open an arbitrary project from the command line, like

pj WolfSheep

if you find that useful you can get it here

http://thedu.us/scripts/pj/pj/

okay that's it

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