Katablogism

If you spend 10 hours a day on your PC, these things can have a catastrophic effect on your productivity. I partition my drive diligently according to this guide.(I did a lot of homework and came up with that guide, so it’s trustworthy).

But if you have 3500 assorted files with names like “Woork xcFgvB1.pDf”, “iphone User manual.PDF”,”address Book.Icon.Drawer.dld free bts_128.png” or god-forbid “Gmail Contsfor-Kbefore SYNC with Iphoneon5Jan.csv”, partitioning would only get you so far. Apart from frustrating the hell out of productivity enthusiasts it would require you to necessarily do a “Search” for your files. Do I need to remind you of the problems of searching in XP? Let’s not forget how a general search can eat into your system resources if you don’t have your drives indexed.

You can reduce these issues to a large extent with adherence to a little diligence in file-naming. These are some of the tips I personally recommend.

word of advice: most of the reasoning should have been pushed to my tech blog, but these file-naming practices have helped me so greatly in terms of productivity in general, I thought this would be a better place :read if you just want the best practices read these rules and move on

• Avoid using “.” (fullstop/period) other than or file extension
• Avoid spaces like the plague
• Case Sensitivity : Use init-caps to separate logical words
• Underscore for change in context, hyphen only for versions/dates
• Use the YYYY-MM-DD format for dates in file names

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Recently had a conversation with my brother, on the importance of brevity in writing, which is when I recalled this masterpiece:-

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all sentences short or avoid all detail and treat subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.

Which book did I pick this from? check my post-slug for clues.