I prefix every file/directory in a workspace with a different letter, if possible, because this makes autocomplete as fast as possible (i.e. usually produces ex

I prefix every file/directory in a workspace with a different letter, if possible, because this makes autocomplete as fast as possible (i.e. usually produces exactly what I want). I try to make every temporary file start with "tmp-" so I can quickly do things like "rm tmp-*" instead of staring at a directory full of files figuring out what I can clean up. If I include a date stamp, I use the standard YYYY-MM-DD form because this sorts perfectly by default. I don’t really understand people using things like "Mon-Apr5-..." because for me that makes it really hard to find files at a glance. It helps to observe how sorting is done in commands like "ls" because sometimes filenames can create other natural groupings. For example, I like to prefix all my documentation files with "_" so they show up together at the top.