Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> It gets pretty voluminous after a while,

My point was hat all visible lists cut off names after some number of
characters and in these examples all you see is completely identical for
all files shown. Go and try to pick a specific one.

>     invitations/birthday/Anni.2019-07-24.txt

Or something like that. Exactly my point. Lost on an astonishingly large
number of people.

> Let the directory structure carry some of that information, rather than
> stuffing it all into the file name.

That too, but also abbreviate redundant stuff and order information
sensibly for sorting and picking.

> 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.

The point in my example was, that we were all expected to have read the
article. Lazy as I am I tend to only skim it once but I've become
reasonably good at that.

Someone: "the way he sees it is that ..."
Me: "Yes, but didn't he also clearly state ."
Them: "Hu, what?  Ah yes, you're absolutely
right."

I love that surprised look from young females.

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