On Wed, 24 Jul 2019 22:35:58 +0000, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

> It gets pretty voluminous after a while, though, and encourages you to
> throw far too many files into one huge tub which you'll spend a lot of
> time wading through.  I'd name files something like:
>
>     invitations/birthday/Anni.2019-07-24.txt
>
Yes, and you can alsoshorten file names a bit by using JavaStyle so-
called CamelCase names rather than spaces and underscores as a
LongNameReadabilityAid.

> Let the directory structure carry some of that information, rather than
> stuffing it all into the file name.
>
Yes, I usually end up doing this and using underscores rather than spaces
because I dislike the "requirement to quote names containing spaces".

> Yup.  It's fun - although it's somewhat marred when the youngsters look
> scornfully upon such an ability, claiming that they can look it all up
> on their phone.  However, revenge is sweet when their battery dies.  :-)
>
Paper is good. I'll use eBooks instead of dead trees when they come with
two double-sided paperback book-sized  pages (so you can have a contents
page, two facing pages of text and an index page available at all times)
and the whole thing can either be rolled up or has hard covers.


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