Trying Out That Yoon Ina Thing
Alright, so someone mentioned this ‘yoon ina’ method a while back. Said it was supposed to be some revolutionary way to handle my project files. You know how it is, stuff gets messy fast. I figured, what the heck, let’s give it a shot. Couldn’t be worse than the digital pileup I currently have.
So, the first thing I did was try to understand the core idea. Honestly, it wasn’t super clear from the brief explanation I got. Sounded like a mix of specific naming conventions and folder structures. Seemed simple enough on the surface.
My Process Went Something Like This:
- Step 1: I picked a medium-sized project. Didn’t want to risk screwing up something major, you know? Just a bunch of documents, images, and some code snippets.
- Step 2: I started creating the folders. The ‘yoon ina’ way, supposedly. Had names like ‘Core_Assets’, ‘Working_Drafts_Ina’, ‘Final_Outputs_Yoon’. Felt a bit weird, like forced structure.
- Step 3: Then came the renaming. Oh boy. Renaming dozens, maybe hundreds of files according to this new convention. It was tedious. Like, really tedious. Took me a whole afternoon.
- Step 4: I moved everything into the new folders. Tried to follow the ‘rules’ strictly. Put images here, docs there, based on whether they were ‘core’ or ‘draft’ or ‘final’.
Did it work? Well, kinda. For about a week.
Initially, it looked neat. Super organized. I could find things… if I remembered the exact ‘yoon ina’ logic for where I put them. But then reality hit. New files came in. Some files were both ‘draft’ and ‘core’. Where do they go? Do I duplicate them? The system started breaking down pretty fast.
It felt like trying to fit square pegs into round holes. The structure was too rigid. Real work isn’t that clean. You have files that are in-between stages, or stuff that doesn’t fit neatly into ‘yoon’ or ‘ina’ categories, whatever those were truly meant to represent.
Reminds me of this one time at a previous job. Management brought in consultants who gave us this complex workflow system. Looked great on PowerPoint slides. In practice? Everyone just found workarounds because it slowed us down. This ‘yoon ina’ thing felt similar. Good intentions, maybe, but totally impractical for my day-to-day mess.
So, after maybe two weeks of struggling, I scrapped it. Went back to my slightly chaotic, but familiar, system. It’s not perfect, but at least it flows with how I actually work. I just dumped all the ‘yoon ina’ folders into an archive called ‘That Weird Experiment’ and moved on.
My takeaway? Fancy systems aren’t always better. Sometimes, simple and flexible beats complex and rigid, especially when it’s just you trying to get stuff done. So yeah, that was my little adventure with ‘yoon ina’. Won’t be trying that again anytime soon.
