# Recursive Directories You can install as many instances of nothing on your machine as you'd like and they all work independently. That means you could do this: ![[IMG_1876.jpeg|Easily create more instances of nothing in subfolders to manage projects|600]] # Alternate Nothing Installation Directory For security reasons, you may not want to run Nothing from the same place where you are keeping your Tasks. You can specify an alternate directory to manage as the first argument of the ruby command. Say you have your tasks in `~/public` and you want to run from `~/private`: 1. Run the Quickstart installation in both places. 2. Edit the crontab to remove running from `public` 3. Still in the crontab, edit `ruby nothing.rb` to `ruby nothing.rb $HOME/public`. ![[Partials#^eaec46]]