#FileNaming
i'm putting together the zip of all the art i did of these two back in the day and it's really putting my worst filenaming habit on display lmao.
i do this when i haven't decided whether a concept should get its own folder yet; i give them all the same name so they're together and easy to find
April 10, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Turns out that researchers' terrible filenaming habits are just a plesiomorphic trait
March 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
reuploading inatodo that is forever lost to my bad filenaming practice (I tried looking for the original file, i really did)
December 29, 2024 at 5:37 PM
The filenaming discipline
November 20, 2024 at 7:01 PM
Having my college and my main professional society have the same acronym leads to really confusing subject lines and requires very careful filenaming strategies. Just got an invitation about an LSA teaching panel and it's like, "I mean, this could be from either place." (College, today.)
July 15, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I sound like a broken record when advising researchers about filenaming, my favourite line is "It's a filename, not a password" when discouraging special characters.

I've got a new frontrunner for the worst I've seen. And they're only a single character.
December 5, 2024 at 12:43 AM
I actually do use yyyy-mm-dd in my filenaming because it makes things SO easy to organize. I'll never go back.
February 29, 2024 at 7:22 PM
I usually go the ISO route, or, when filenaming, just yymmdd (241213)
December 14, 2024 at 1:48 AM
Podcast: SonicTALK 897 - Holiday Synths, GForce P5 and Cherry ESQ-1 : And filenaming
And filenaming
Podcast: SonicTALK 897 - Holiday Synths, GForce P5 and Cherry ESQ-1 : And filenaming
sonicstate.com
June 17, 2026 at 5:45 PM
does anyone have any expertise with filenaming conventions for digital archives? i feel like i've never seen any documentation of "best practices" that gets that granular.

somebody who is good at the economy please help my spreadsheets are starving.
January 6, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Biomeのignoreってoverridesでincludesなのか。なんかメンタルモデルが難しい "useFilenamingConvention | Biome" https://biomejs.dev/linter/rules/use-filenaming-convention/#ignoring-some-files
July 8, 2025 at 12:13 AM
the tried and true punching my keyboard filenaming system
February 7, 2026 at 9:10 AM
this is your first and only Malcolm Jamal-WARNING for boomer tier filenaming.
August 14, 2026 at 11:53 AM
Read this on patch day but only have time now to properly post about it. This will be a big hit to automatic and manual model filenaming for community tools such as wow.export as many names are based on interface icons. That said, it will take care of a bunch of leaks too, so they're not wrong here.
June 21, 2026 at 2:46 PM
it's very similars to use on windows I thinks

lookings around made me finds this but never useds github.com/Bionus/imgbr...
GitHub - Bionus/imgbrd-grabber: Very customizable imageboard/booru downloader with powerful filenaming features.
Very customizable imageboard/booru downloader with powerful filenaming features. - Bionus/imgbrd-grabber
github.com
June 25, 2026 at 9:35 AM
All good on the filenaming, it helps save me a bit of work in organizing the files but its totally not vital for accepting submissions.
April 29, 2026 at 4:06 PM
i just "sort by date created" in my art folder to do this, i think actually things would be harder to find out of the blue if i used this filenaming system cause im much more likely to remember "picture i drew where clair is crying?? uhhh claircry.png???" than remember that i drew that in oct 2023
October 9, 2025 at 10:40 PM
it’s nice to see that filenaming conventions for a final version are the same globally (finalFINALffiinnaallFIIINNNALLL and 최최최최최최최종) 😂 #kdrama #SeeYouAtWorkTomorrow #SeeYouAtWorkTomorrowEp1
June 23, 2026 at 12:48 AM
Here's what I do with undergraduates (juniors/seniors) in Research Methods. It's Unit 5: Assignment #4 in this Open Access course.

(Unit 5: Assignment #3 is about filenaming, one of my penchants!)

You are welcome to use any or all material in the entire course! online225.psych.wisc.edu
PSY 225: Research Methods -
online225.psych.wisc.edu
November 18, 2024 at 5:04 AM
advice
June 4, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Photos numériques : centraliser, trier et sauvegarder avec une routine simple

❓ Comment organiser ses photos numériques simplement ?
❓ Qu'est-ce que la règle 3-2-1 pour les sauvegardes ?
❓ Comment nommer ses fichiers photos pour mieux les retrouver ?

#filenaming #cloudbackup #photosorting
Comment organiser et archiver ses photos numériques sans perdre des heures
Une routine simple de 15 minutes par mois permet de centraliser, trier et sauvegarder efficacement ses photos numériques avec une double sauvegarde physique et cloud.
france-jeunes.net
September 21, 2026 at 5:35 PM
I have at *least* a decade’s worth of those! I never open them!

See also: thousands upon thousands of folders dating back to 5.25” floppies of “stuff” & “subgirl’s files” & “unsorted files” & “unsorted backup 1 of ??”

I’m at least getting better at filenaming & recognise my terrible ways.
March 24, 2025 at 7:45 PM
so now we're told we have to resubmit all the beginning-of-semester documents again, except now in a new format, and with a very specific way of filenaming I won't be able to remember.

I guess everyone outside of the classroom who even THINKS about higher ed in this state figures we have nothing
February 10, 2026 at 8:04 PM
I am so sick and tired of people not doing this! Nowadays, I make sure to create an individual folder to save the game docs in for each new TTRPG I download just so I can keep the files together.
I'm not perfect with my own games' filenaming but I do try to make sure they're unique & decipherable!
July 24, 2026 at 7:16 AM
Like, I downloaded a software the other month that somehow was scanning episodes of a television show I had ripped on a blu-ray and auto-naming the files to the correct filenaming convention for my NAS, and then when I looked up how it did that, it was using some AI software. Okay, that's neat.
August 8, 2026 at 7:50 AM