“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.”
True, but if you want Google to wake up and smell the roses (or in my case, espresso).. you need to give them what they want.
Some documents need time stamps – yyyy-mm-dd-hh-mm-ss-what-it-is.xxx implicitly sorts in chronological order. 24 is too intense for me, but a great way to time stamp.
Most articles are best renamed with keywords. When we travelled to London, I created a PDF of the London Tube, emailed it to my iPhone .Mac account, and had a nice bright scalable map easy to read on my iPhone in dark, cold and wet London.
Here’s the file name I used:
uk_london_tube_map.pdf
I gives me everything I need to find the file on my computer. Being a digital kind of guy, I use the 2 letter International Internet Codes or State Code as a prefix.
th_bangkok_wat_pho_reclining_buddha_01.jpg
Back in ancient times (i.e. before taking the Bloodhound Unchained class last week), I would have used a more cryptic code, but Greg’s engenu batch creates ALT tags from the file name, so all my file names will now have embedded keywords for SEO juice.
th_bk_wp_reclining_bdh_01.jpg
But the bits are free.. no extra charge for using more of them…though I would like someone to tell me if I need to stay within an XXX character limit.
Adobe Bridge (Mac & Windows) is superb for organizing and renaming photos and movies.