{"id":1943,"date":"2013-03-21T10:02:30","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T14:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielpradilla.info\/blog\/?p=1943"},"modified":"2013-08-12T04:07:59","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T08:37:59","slug":"organize-dropbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielpradilla.info\/blog\/organize-dropbox\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Keep your Dropbox Organized"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A while ago I wrote about how Dropbox can be a tool to organize your life<\/a>. One of the secondary benefits of Dropbox is that you can share folders with other people to exchange files in a transparent way.<\/p>\n

The problem is that if you share Dropbox folders with several people, you can easily lose control of the situation.<\/p>\n

Stu Maschwitz makes a comparison between sharing Dropbox folders and having roommates<\/a>: when you have only one roommate, is easy to know who left the dirty dishes. But when you add a third one, maintenance and finding who’s to blame becomes complicated.<\/p>\n

Hence, Stu wrote the three rules of happiness for Dropbox:<\/p>\n

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  1. Use a non-stupid name for the shared folder<\/b>. Don’t place the name of the person with whom you are sharing it with, put also your name, so that the other person knows where the files are coming from. Example: John and Peter, Ashley and John, etc.<\/li>\n
  2. Use a system within your folder<\/b>: Create subfolders, name those folders with a date, or the project name.<\/li>\n
  3. Do the dishes<\/b>. Delete unnecessary files after using them. Eventhough is a drive in the cloud, Dropbox files occupy space in other people’s hard drives.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Read more about Dropbox Etiquette<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    A while ago I wrote about how Dropbox can be a tool to organize your life. One of the secondary benefits of Dropbox is that you can share folders with other people to exchange files in a transparent way. The problem is that if you share Dropbox folders with several people, you can easily lose… Continue reading How to Keep your Dropbox Organized<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,172],"tags":[206],"class_list":["post-1943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","category-projectmanagement-en","tag-dropbox-en","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tlzy-vl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1698,"url":"https:\/\/www.danielpradilla.info\/blog\/orden-dropbox\/","url_meta":{"origin":1943,"position":0},"title":"C\u00c3\u00b3mo mantener orden en tu Dropbox","author":"Daniel Pradilla","date":"18\/09\/2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Hace unos meses escrib\u00c3\u00ad sobre Dropbox, una herramienta esencial para organizar tu vida. 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