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I like that in general, but I would suggest not to use dates in folders - the date is automatically in the file properties of the folder so you can sort by it.
by tomjen3 6y ago
I like that in general, but I would suggest not to use dates in folders - the date is automatically in the file properties of the folder so you can sort by it.
By all means keep a number in the folder name, if the number is meaningful, but also keep a human understandable name in there. That helps when you can't remember if it was the fifth show or whatever, maybe you can remember the name when you see it.
Or maybe I am missing something?
Anyway I try to organize my files kinda like that, but use my Downloads folder as GTD inbox: nothing is meant to stay there.
- nickloewen 6y agoAh! The folder name is still human readable, just with a date out front: “2019 open education conference” for example. Putting the year in the name is helpful because the year you did the thing may differ from from the created/last modified date. At the gallery, for example, these folders go back to the 1950s. Even for more recent projects, I find myself adding to old folders from time to time (converting document formats etc), or not recognizing that a handful of files represent a coherent “project” until a year after I created the first one. So it’s useful to be able to swap between sorting by file-system time and “actual” time. It prevents alphabetical sorting, but if I know enough of the name for alphabetical sorting to be useful I can usually just use a search. Agreed re: Downloads, although it can take some time to get to it. Edit: I also see others talking about having “archive” folders. The date system makes that mostly unnecessary.