Cohousing-L Mailing List: File Labelling

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

> On May 19, 2022, at 8:25 AM, Henning Mortensen <hmortensen [at] gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> Our community creates a lot of agendas and minutes for meetings. We started 
> out storing these in the team folders but this was suboptimal as we had to 
> traverse the directory tree to gather the minutes together. What we came up 
> with was a naming convention that allowed us to put all files into one folder.
> 
> The naming convention is [YYYYMMDD]-[Agenda | Minutes][Team Name]
> 
> This has allowed us to sort our list in descending order to get all of the 
> latest minutes to the top. 
> 
> If we ever want to search for a specific file, we can search by any part of 
> the file name. Searching by team name gets us all the files for a team.

On the software list, we’ve been discussing the organization of files and what 
features we need in cohousing software. Henning described a strategy that 
eliminates the need for separating files into separate folders. I thought this 
might be useful on the Cohousing-L list.

With search and sort capabilities (which I wish I had for my bookshelves) it is 
easier to find all the discussions on “bike racks" if the minutes are all in 
the same folder/directory instead of having to search in all the directories.

Sharon
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Sharon Villines, Washington DC
"Design is the first sign of human intention." William McDonough