Basic organisation of anything is not hard, when you name your files properly you can quickly find what you are looking for saving you more time to do fun things like drink tea and eat biscuits. Unfortunately when it is easier to make a mess most people will resort to a lackadaisical system of bad labelling. Which is why most people’s “My Documents” is a mess of badly named files.

When saving a document you get given the option to save it as something boring and uninformative like “Book1” or “Document1”. You are also given at the same time the opportunity to give it a proper name, it’s like walking to the edge of a cliff and failing to turn around at the last-minute because “I was going in that direction and it was too much effort to change direction”. Continue reading →