The Quiet Scribe·The work·Software teams
Map My Folder
Maps a folder so the next reader opens one file, not all of them.
The situation
A folder has grown for two years and the person who knows it is you. Anyone else who opens it — a new hire, or a tool with no memory of last week — has to read all of it to change one thing.
What actually happens
- You give it the path to that folder. Not a description of it.
- It reads what is there and works out what each part is for.
- It writes a short list, then one card per thing, each saying what breaks if you change it.
- The next reader opens the list and one card, and stops.
Where it stops
Each card has to pass a check before it is written. Its rules put it as checks, not advice — a card that fails does not get written, so you get a shorter map rather than a padded one.
See it
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