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Modern Mentor

134 GID File Naming for Easy Finding

Modern Mentor

Macmillan Holdings, LLC

Careers, Business, Management

4.3720 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2010

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Often, we name files based on what we're thinking when we need to create one. By naming your files carefully, you can sort them alphabetically and they'll stay neatly in a sensible order, even if you're sloppy about putting them in the right folders. Questions go to [email protected] or 888-WRK-LESS. Like what you hear? Help us out by writing a review at iTunes!

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0:00.0

Steven Robbins here.

0:04.4

Welcome to the Get It Done guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

0:09.0

I've talked in the past about how to name your file folders to make them easy to find.

0:15.0

You can also make files easier to find within a folder or within search results when you search for a file.

0:21.6

If you're on my Facebook fan page, Facebook.com forward slash get it done guy, you know

0:26.6

I've been learning to sing and dance for Evil Dead the Musical. My role was the most important

0:32.6

role of all. I'd coveted it since second grade. the dancing tree, which clearly establishes that the

0:39.4

other characters, who actually have dialogue, are indeed in a cabin in the woods.

0:45.6

I created an evil dead folder on my computer to hold all my evil dead related files.

0:51.6

I downloaded song lyrics.

0:53.3

The director emailed me notes after rehearsal, telling me I had done a very good job.

0:58.1

I found a link to a recipe for tasty, edible, fake stage blood that doesn't stain. Very important.

1:03.5

You never know when you're going to need that. Pretty soon, my folder was a jumble of files.

1:08.8

Ugh. What tools does my computer give me to organize files?

1:14.1

Alphabetical order.

1:15.9

Fifty years into the computer revolution, and the geniuses who make them can alphabetize.

1:21.9

They can't do much else, like get a date.

1:24.0

So this is clearly their revenge.

1:27.6

Use keywords in your file names.

1:30.3

Start your file names with an all-upercase keyword that tells you what kind of file it is.

1:35.5

So all files with lyrics, now start with the word lyrics.

1:39.4

Lyrics.

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