File Management (using dates)

'year/month/day' formatted dates sort alphanumerically.

'day/month/year' (UK) and 'month/day/year' (USA) standards do not.

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Think about it: Under the UK system, the 1st of December sorts in front of the 2nd of January because 1 comes before 2. And in America Jan the 1st 2008 comes before the December the 1st 2007 because 01 comes before 12.

So I name my files YYYYMMDD
SongTitle19990629.wav
SongTitle20071210.wav
SongTitle20080103.wav
SongTitle20080109.wav

Works for session files too.

Versions of the same day get suffixed a, b, c etc

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Date are more logical than descriptives like... 'final mix', 'final final mix', 'final final mix THIS ONE', new final mix, 'new new final mix unmastered reverb +EQ' etc etc etc etc.

And if you use the YYYYMMDD format, they'll sort alphanumerically on a computer and you'll be organised.