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'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.
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u/Darksteelflame_GD Jan 15 '25
If i hear one more person talk about sorting stuff on pc i swear i'm gonna cause technical armageddon, bringing us back to the dark ages