Reducing 2,300 Project Documents to 400 — A Full Audit Record
After running a project for nearly a year, documents accumulate. Feature design specs, TODOs, debugging records, migration plans, test scenarios… Each was needed at the time, but over time they become noise. One day I ran find docs -name "*.md" | wc -l and got 2,352. Status Check: How Did It Get This Bad find docs -name "*.md" | wc -l # 2352 # File count by directory find docs -maxdepth 1 -type d | while read d; do count=$(find "$d" -name "*.md" | wc -l) echo "$count $(basename $d)" done | sort -rn | head -15 Results: ...