Writng-Keeping versions straight

Posted by Hugh
Jul 8, 2011 at 02:06 PM

I start each file name with a text-expanded today?s date, triggered by a shortcut ? I use ?td?. The date is set up to be in reversed form e.g. 2011-07-08. That makes it generally possible to see at a glance how the trail of versions runs. To make it more fine-grained, you can add a text expansion for the time too. Of course you could always sort on Created Date and/or Modified Date instead. But whatever the system you always have to be disciplined about the generic name of the document and keep it consistent. When you start to vary that (usually by accident or memory failure), things start to go awry.