How do you name your layout files?

I can see it in the properties window on Windows on the print page that I save and the gallery size. If you don't save a JPEG, a txt file would be easier.

 

I do the year, month, date for most pages, sometimes just year and month if it's an older photo, along with some sort of event identifier
like
20151225_christmasday

I actually save my CT pages under different names
usually
store_MonthProduct-kiana
this let's me know what store, and product and adding my name at the end is easy for the designer to know who created it

I don't save PSD or TIFF so I don't need anything other than my jpegs.

 

I name my layouts in a way that they are all listed in chrological order no matter when I eventually get around to creating each page. They are named:

YYYY-MM-DD Description

so for example 2018-07-01 Interlochen Camping page 1

The date is the date of the event I'm scrapping and then the description is whatever the page is about and if it's a trip where I do multiple pages, I just add page 1, page 2, page 3, etc. so they will all be listed in order when I flip through them later.

 

I should name with the date like a lot of these ladies, but honestly I just name them the title of the layout. I always add the layout credits (kit,template, font, etc & LINKS!) in the metadata so it stays with the layout wherever I move it! I keep my printed layouts in 3 ring binders, so I can add layouts to each year's album fairly easily!

 

I'm weird. I name it with the products... then at the end, all layout use a date in this format - 02-2019 or Jan 2019 - so I know what month the moment scrapped is from... then when pull into my album folders, I manually sort by date, and use colors to see what months I can make more pages. I have a tendency to have more layouts during better weather.

So, I'll have: TLP - SWL_Wntrz_JJSnwFn_SpcElt_CBeach_01-2019

I used Scrapping with Liz - Winterize, Just Jaimee Snow Fun, Font is Special Elite and it was Colin on the Beach in January 2019.

 

This is what I do although I have found I recycle titles alot so it makes it difficult to find things later. I am watching this thread, because I may need to up my layout naming game!

 

My layouts are almost all named:
Year
Month
Day of photo
Title of page
For example: 20171226leap

Certain pages that might be part of special albums may have album identifying initials, such as an art journal page, or a kid's book: AJ201901insideme RB20130429rorymakes4

This is so when i go to print my album, i can quickly upload all AJ pages into one folder for shutterfly or something. When I'm ready to print a specific year's book, i can just grab the layouts dated for that year. I keep them sorted by date the photos took place.

This also makes it easy for me to look through a folder of photos and see which photos have already been scrapped, because i keep photos organized by year/month in date order, too.

 

This is me! Recycled titles or subjects. Hence why I add the date.

 

I save mine this way: year-month-day-title (e.g. 2019-02-04-today.jpg) and for the layouts I upload I add "_sm" to the end of it (2019-02-04-today_sm.jpg) and file it in a folder by designer (for CT work). I save the full layouts in folders by year.

 

I name all of my layouts Year-Month-Title. I print them all chronologically so I can see at a glance which year folder they belong to and they will auto-sort based on the month number. I occasionally have to tweak the ordering when I'm actually printing, like making sure someone's birthday is in the right part of the month, but otherwise sorting by month is usually good enough for me.