How do you name your documents?

Question

I try to have some structure in my filenames and use the convention of V .ext. This doesn't help the problem of differentiating drafts and final versions so I still end up with things like Year End Report Final V3 BCG minor edits.docx. How do you name your documents and/or folder structures to handle this?

theamk · Accepted Answer

just put a date (in YYYY-mm-dd format, so it sorts properly) somewhere. report 2022-09-01 draft.doc report 2022-09-02 draft2.doc report 2022-09-03 final.doc report 2022-09-04 draft4.doc (A more powerful way is to use some sort of version control system; but those don't generally work well with non-text documents.)

favourable · Answer

I TYPE FILENAMES IN ALL-CAPS SO I CAN READ THEM BETTER.I tag filenames using square brackets and use hyphens. For example:HOLIDAY [JUNE-2022-BEACH].jpg

cratermoon · Answer

I name them git init .

How do you name your documents?

I TYPE FILENAMES IN ALL-CAPS SO I CAN READ THEM BETTER.
I tag filenames using square brackets and use hyphens. For example:
HOLIDAY [JUNE-2022-BEACH].jpg

I name them
`git init .`