Where to store your files

emLab files live in one of three places, depending on what they are:

• Google Shared Drive — collaborative Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides.
• GRIT (emLab’s data storage space) — everything else that’s stored as a file: data, media, PDFs, Microsoft Office documents, and so on.
• GitHub — source code and other version-controlled text.

The Google Shared Drive and GRIT use a similar folder layout, but each file belongs to exactly one of them based on its type — never duplicate files between them. The pages linked above describe the conventions for each location.

How to name your folders

There are some general style conventions that should be used when naming folders. For any new folder, be descriptive but concise, avoid spaces, avoid uppercase (or camel-case), and avoid special characters other than -, such as = \ / : * ? " ' < > |. Words should be separated with -, so an example folder name could be blue-paradox-paper.

When possible, avoid unnecessary deep file nesting (i.e., a folder within a folder within a folder within a folder…etc) to keep file paths relatively short and easy to navigate.

This folder naming convention should be used for any folder added to the Google Shared Drive, GRIT, or GitHub.