Generate a Complete File List of Your Folder in Minutes - Quickly get an overview of your research folders

This short, 15-minute workshop introduces participants to simple, built-in Windows and macOS commands for generating a complete list of files and folders within any project. Participants will learn how listing files can improve organisation, archiving and reproducibility, as well as how to export a folder tree to a text file. This gives participants an overview of their project structures, improving transparency in their research workflow.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Published
2026-02-09
DOI
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18548094
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Personal Information Management and User Behavior
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Generate a Complete File List of Your Folder in Minutes - Quickly get an overview of your research folders

Auriane Marmier
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Personal Information Management and User Behavior
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Generate a Complete File List of Your Folder in Minutes - Quickly get an overview of your research folders

Auriane Marmier
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Abstract

This short, 15-minute workshop introduces participants to simple, built-in Windows and macOS commands for generating a complete list of files and folders within any project. Participants will learn how listing files can improve organisation, archiving and reproducibility, as well as how to export a folder tree to a text file. This gives participants an overview of their project structures, improving transparency in their research workflow.

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
FORS – Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences (CH)
Openalex Percentile: Top 64%
Personal Information Management and User Behavior
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