Link hygiene
Short, repeating reviews beat an annual cleanup you will postpone.
Weekly, about ten minutes
For directories you actually use this week, open a small sample. Remove anything that does not load. Fix titles that no longer match. That is enough. You are checking for rot, not rereading every source. The narrative version is in the weekly review article.
Monthly, about thirty minutes
- Confirm the description still matches the contents.
- Merge or remove duplicates.
- Update notes that are vague or tied to old dates.
- Normalize tags; delete unused ones.
- If the folder is public, read it like a stranger.
Shared directories need a named owner for this pass. Details: team hygiene.
Public standard
If you would not send the list to a client, it should not be public. Promotional junk, dead URLs, and unexplained dumps get reported. Use the report control if you find a directory that violates policy; we may hide it during review.
Naming help: best practices.