This is technically a continuation of a conversation I had with eXceLon over the weekend, but I was curious what types of naming conventions everyone uses on their day-to-day files, either at work or ...

Productivity guru Merlin Mann has an interesting post over at 43 Folders regarding file naming conventions best practices. Mann posts a detailed system used by a video crew for naming their files to ...

Google docs. Calendar entries. Email subjects. Someone make it stop with the generic names. Like “meeting minutes” for a gdoc. Or “meet Maha” (on my own calendar, invitation sent by someone else who ...

I was never big on organizing things in any particular order. It always felt like a chore, whether it was clothes, tools, or digital files. But having no organization means full-on panic when you ...

Can you envisage a day when any form of filename is a thing of the past? I was saving a file on my PC a few minutes ago and — while deciding on a name — I paused for a moment’s contemplation. I know ...

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Currently there is no across-the-board standard when it comes to naming product image files. This makes it incredibly difficult to determine at a glance what product your images relate to. Coming up ...

Extracting files from archives isn't difficult, but it can be tedious, especially with all the archive naming conventions in use today. But you can make the task a little easier by putting everything ...