cd directly to a folder

Tab completion and unambiguous folder names make navigating to a Johnny.Decimal folder trivial.

cd 2⇥ 21⇥ 21.13⇥⏎
# /Users/john/Documents/20-29 Create & collect/21 Imaginarium 🧠/21.13 Flight records & boarding passes

That gets you to folder 21.13 by way of 20-29 then 21. Pretty quick, but we can make it quicker.

Add this to ~/.zshrc.

# ⚠️ Set your own path
export JD_PATH="/Users/john/Documents"

jd() {
  local root="${JD_PATH:?JD_PATH not set}" id="$1"
  if [[ -z "$id" ]]; then
    cd "$root"
    return
  fi
  local match
  match=$(find "$root" -maxdepth 3 -type d -name "$id *" -print -quit)
  if [[ -n "$match" ]]; then
    cd "$match"
  else
    echo "No folder found for $id" >&2
    return 1
  fi
}

# Extension for multiple systems
# ⚠️ Set your own paths
export JD_D25_PATH="/Users/john/Documents/D25"
export JD_P76_PATH="/Users/john/Documents/P76"

d25() { JD_PATH="$JD_D25_PATH" jd "$@" }
p76() { JD_PATH="$JD_P76_PATH" jd "$@" }

Usage

Single systems

jd 21.13
# /Users/john/Documents/20-29 Create & collect/21 Imaginarium 🧠/21.13 Flight records & boarding passes

Multiple systems

p76 21.13
pwd
# /Users/john/Documents/P76/20-29 Create & collect/21 Imaginarium 🧠/21.13 Flight records & boarding passes

Note: the CLI is also jd

The in-development CLI utility will eventually perform this function. If you want to try the CLI, give the function described above a different name (e.g. jdcd).