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
