Ask HN: How do you name your documents?

2 points by kumarsw 3 years ago · 4 comments · 1 min read

I try to have some structure in my filenames and use the convention of <base filename> V<version #> <initials> <change description>.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 3 years ago

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 3 years ago

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 3 years ago

I name them

    git init .

mixmastamyk 3 years ago

and use markdown or other text format.

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