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One suggestion: - Put the ISO8601 date in front. Use a tool to rename all existing ones. You will then be able to find things chronologically, they’ll be gro
by Terretta 4y ago
One suggestion:
- Put the ISO8601 date in front.
Use a tool to rename all existing ones.
You will then be able to find things chronologically, they’ll be grouped as you found them, and you can find things you can’t remember except that you worked on them at the time you were doing that other thing.
All your other ways of finding them still work.
Bonus: also works as a better versioning convention than “Title v4 Bob Copy 2.docx”.
- mxuribe 4y agoI appreciate your suggestion! However... About 2 decades ago or so, i in fact tried using the date in front...and found that i actually remember more vividly a particular topic (or author or even domain name), rather than dates. Often my mind squishes days together too much to be useful for me. Like people who remember faces great, but not names...i seem to recall topics vastly better than "when" such material was obtained. Hence, using date prefixes made it a tad more cumbersome to find things, at least at a glance. I use the date at the end merely for reference, but not so much for searchability. If i really wanted to find something by date - rare, though it happens - then i can either search via regex in GUI or command line search, such as *YYYY-MM-*.pdf ...etc. Thanks anayway! EDIT: Asterisks were previously omitted accidentally in my regex search.