Most efficient way to organize content and lists?

[maaaaaaaaaatt]

Hey folks! Need advice on organizing directories and subdirectories within my content folder. Started to build out my file structure and am having trouble pulling in the information that I need -I’ve looked at the leaf/branch models but need some clarification.

Here’s what I have:

content/
└── research/
    ├── universal/
    │   ├── project1
    │   └── project2
    ├── global/
    │   ├── project1
    │   └── project2
    ├── local/
    │   ├── project1
    │   └── project2
    └── personal/
        ├── project1
        └── project2

I want to create a list page at /research to show universal, global, local, and personal (but not the projects within), and another list page for each subdirectory (/personal, for example) that shows each of the individual projects.

Can I do this by creating one list.html default layout? Do i need a index.md page for each of my subdirectories to get them to appear on the list?

thanks all!

[jmooring]

Convert each subdirectory into a section by adding _index.md files.

https://gohugo.io/getting-started/glossary/#section

For example:

content/
├── research/
│   ├── global/
│   │   ├── _index.md
│   │   ├── project-1.md
│   │   └── project-2.md
│   ├── local/
│   │   ├── _index.md
│   │   ├── project-1.md
│   │   └── project-2.md
│   ├── personal/
│   │   ├── _index.md
│   │   ├── project-1.md
│   │   └── project-2.md
│   ├── universal/
│   │   ├── _index.md
│   │   ├── project-1.md
│   │   └── project-2.md
│   └── _index.md
└── _index.md

Then range through .Pages in your section template (e.g., layouts/_default/list.html).