A way to organize files.

Ado Lóvas
2 min readJan 21, 2020

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Once I found an interesting point about history that I want to share with you and how I got inspired to label files

I started using this perspective as a new format to prioritize data,and get a label. Here’s an example of it:

##### (Year of the file; example 12020).
####### (Year + Month: 1202001).
######### {(Year + Month + Day: 120200120 (this is an information to be more specific on a date)}.

And here is an example of an alternative use to keep track of information.

Image of how I use it as a date on notes, essays, to-dos, et cetera.

I use underlines to separe the numbers as a category and identify them easily:

120200120_###_

Usually I begin with a 000 (Using 3 numbers to consider the exponential use or increase of data that can be catgorize). After this, if there’s a data inside a data, I keep with the same logic:

120200120_000_000_

I end with an underline to indicate the end of it. When I add text to specify the content of it, I use this logic:

120200120_000_EXAMPLE_

When there’s more words of it or a sentence, I consider the space between words with a dash (_):

120200120_000_EXAMPLE-EXAMPLE_

To Separate the hierarchy of a sentence I take advantage of the underline as a space between priorities:

120200120_000_AUTHOR_TOPIC_

It may be confusing, but getting used to it, you can identify the priority of data just by typing.

Recap.
120200120_ {Date (Year+Month+Day)}
120200120_000 (Priority info)
120200120_000_000_ (Nested data)
120200120_000_000_NAME_TOPIC)_ (Names of files and the separation to identify topics and content).

Let me know what you think about this system, what type of file organization you use or if you got questions, doubts. Don’t hesitate and leave them below, I’m willing to answer everything.

Thanks for reading, hope you enjoy it!

Greetings. ;)

Notes.
I use Capital Letters as a habit to get a better visual of typing.

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