MindPerformanceHacks 2fPreDeleteCruft

Hack #18: Pre-Delete Cruft

Cruft is clutter that bogs things down and gets in the way of getting things done. Idea clutter is mostly stuff that we could have gotten rid of to begin with. When you initiate an activity, determine a kill date for it at the same time.

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There are tools that delete files in the /tmp directory if they haven't been accessed in a user-specified amount of time:

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This is a page for a hack from the book MindPerformanceHacks by Ron Hale-Evans.