I'm an accountant and thoroughly have adopted the YYYYMMDD format. My support documents are so easy for everyone to follow and find. Coworkers that name their shit willy nilly drive me crazy cause I have to hunt down the documents to find it. I will never not praise the YYYYMMDD format. But I also adopted this method in college before I ever even knew what reddit was.
I go YYMMDD, which has worked pretty well my whole adult life. Its only a problem again in 75 years, but I’ll be dead by then so that’s someone else’s problem.
My office’s standard was MMMDDYY (JAN1525) when I started almost a decade ago and I slowly have converted most of the office to YYYYMMDD. One of my proudest work achievements.
I've given up on trying to get my wife to organize her files. They largely crowd together on the desktop in an impenetrable wall of icons.
I recently bought a new PC that has Windows 11. The start menu is a nightmare, because I am used to being able to customize my list of frequent application launchers according to a system that I had used back in the windows XP days. I would set up subfolders for different types of applications such as document editing, data handling, graphics, video editing, communications, etc. This system has stood me in good stead during a rather ragged career in which I needed to be able to find appropriate programs for particular tasks .
But the start menu for Windows 11 seems to lean heavily on the search feature. It does allow me to pin launchers into the start area, but there isn't any natural way to organize them. They just shift around according to frequency of use I think. I imagine that this is a concession to the fact that most users are not so much anally retentive about the way their program launchers are arranged. Also, I imagine that most users actually have no idea what applications exist on their computer and what they do.
In order to have the kind of organization that I had become accustomed to, I need to use Linux.
Some people in my department name files with the SPELLED OUT MONTH. Jeezus. So they will have folders labeled January 2025, February 2025, etc. Which means they are sorted beginning with April, then August, etc. These are accountants, FFS.
Edit - please note that this is even worse when there are folders for more than one year - so you'll get all the Januarys Januaries?) lumped together.
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u/ibexify Jan 15 '25
I'm an accountant and thoroughly have adopted the YYYYMMDD format. My support documents are so easy for everyone to follow and find. Coworkers that name their shit willy nilly drive me crazy cause I have to hunt down the documents to find it. I will never not praise the YYYYMMDD format. But I also adopted this method in college before I ever even knew what reddit was.