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- [Scott] What is the best way to name your files? Let's find out in today's video. Hello everyone, Scott Friesen here at Simpletivity, helping you to get more done and enjoy less stress. And you probably already know that the way that you structure your folders is important, but what's so much more important is how you name your individual files so you can go and find them and retrieve them when you need to. So in today's video, I'm gonna show you three different components that you should include in each of your filenames. But first, I'd like to thank today's sponsor Recoverit Free by Wondershare. Have you lost a file and thought that it was gone for good? Have you ever gone looking for something that was deleted or maybe formatted from your device? Well, with Recoverit Free, you can recover almost any major file type. We're talking more than just documents. We're talking video and even emails which may be stored on your computer. And it goes far beyond just your laptop or desktop. With Recoverit, you can scan devices such as your USB drive, a memory card or even your camera. How simple is it? Well, there's three steps. Just simply select the type of device you wanna scan. Recoverit will scan it for you and then in most cases recover that file, that long lost picture, maybe even a picture of puppies, that you thought was gone for good. So if you'd like to try Recoverit Free, simply click the link in the description below. When it comes to naming your files, there are many different approaches that you can take, but I think you only need three key components, a date, a file subject name and a unique identifier or some other special code. So let's take a look at all three of these components, see why they are important, and also look at the different ways in which we can order them. Here you can see in this example I have a few files that have a date at the beginning and this is great if you are managing files that need to be sorted by a particular date. Now it's true almost every file system will include a last modified date and also you'll be able to find when that file was first created. It doesn't matter if you're in Drive like the example I'm showing you here or if you are on a Windows or a Mac computer. But in many cases, the last time that the file was edited or when it was created is not the most important date so you may want to include something more specific. I'll give you an example. I give a lot of presentations and so for me I don't care so much as to when it was last modified or when I first created that file. What I'd like to know is when did I last present that file. When did I actually deliver that as part of a speech or as part of a live workshop? So I will often include a date at the beginning of those files. Now we wanna go one step further and make sure that we list our dates in a proper order. Here you will see I have things listed in year, month and then day order and we're using two digits for both month and day. Now...