Organize My Files

Yeah I struggled with going with topical or date for file naming conventions as well. I've finally settle on date because it's easier and faster for me during this entire digitizing project. But there will be time when I'm scanning or taking a picture of one of our kids projects and we don't know when it was made, really have no clue what month or year, or naming it under a topic might be better. So I still have those bumps in the road too.

But I've also experimented with tags on photos. I think you can also assign tags to none photo files as well. So we'll see how that goes.

So here's the naming conventions I've been running with.

20171111_Child's name_Artwork and if more than one on that day I'll add a letter i.e. 20171111_Child's name_Artwork_A 20171111_Child's name_Artwork_B. I also do this if there's more than one side to an art project scan or me taking multiple photos of an artwork.

And the added positive side effect is getting rid of all this stuff, not having to worry or think about it all, having more space, and not worrying that something will happen to it all because I've got it all backed up digitally. Plus lets be honest. Out of all this stuff once your kids grown up and have families of their own they maybe will take a couple things for keepsakes and don't want the rest. So this way I can put all these things on a thumb drive and give it to them and they can share it with their kids and on and on etc.

But yeah I like you and eager to see how other manage the files on their computer, scan important documents or children's artwork etc.