I have a short attention span, and constantly keep juggling projects. Sometimes it is hard to remember what projects I have been working on lately.

I keep all my current projects in one project directory (imaginatively named ~/projects), so a directory listing sorted by date will show me what I have been working on.

I am doing this with some frequency, so I thought of a quicker way to show me this by creating an alias for recent projects called rp, which simply lists the directory contents by date, and limits the display to the first ten entries:

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alias rp='ls -t ~/projects | head -10'

Now three keystrokes in any terminal window will show me what I have been working on lately. This is definitely not rocket science, but for me at least it has been very helpful.