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Today is Wednesday, 16th July 2025. Save your files in date order beginning with 20250716 and remember to include your brief file description or name so you can recognise its contents later.
If you want to use reverse order timestamps to save files, use this automatically updated date/time code each time you need to create a new filename: 202507162044.
(Press F5 on your keyboard, double-click the bold code, CTRL+C, CTRL+V to paste into your new doc's filename)
Great Reading
Five minutes to best practise filenaming conventions. Here are the elements of excellent and easily searchable filenames that you should be using with every file you keep:
Date (YYYYMMDD)
Type (LTR, EML, FNOTE, MINUTE, MEMO)
Description (Brief-filename-with-hyphens-description-of-contents)
Version (v01, v02, v03 etc)
Status (DRAFT, FINAL, SENT, RECD, CREATE, ISSUED, FILED)
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The 5 Time Traps
The five worst traps to fall into. These will seriously disrupt your ability to keep on top of your workload. Review this list every month and make sure you aren't falling down one of these rabbitholes!
Trap #1: Poor Prioritization
Trap #2: Distractions/Interruptions
Trap #3: Overwork
Trap #4. Poor Self-Discipline
Trap #5: Poor Organization
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