Should I Change My Old Files' Names?
Don't be so OCD.
Picking after almost 6 months
In the meantime, what have I done? What are the things that bothers me? It really does range from what format should my title should be (minor tiny, insignificant things) to important lifestyle decisions (where should I work and study after graduation). I’ll simply make a small list below.
- Should I use google calendar or work calendar or iCloud?
- Notes or reminder on my phone to stay organized or paper?
- How should i keep my music library sync?
- How to organize my photo library?
- Should I keep auto correction in US English or GB English?
- My minds wonder immediately to how one should call different regions, US/America/United States/USA…
- Space or no space after ending 1 sentence?
The list goes on, and this is ultimately my almost impulsive urge to stay “clean” or “in good shape”. This is not necessarily a bad trait to have, obviously I am more organized and structured than your average joe. But I also get frustrated by the fact that I could never be perfect in my files/music/photos/my body/my life. Anger or discomfort or depression came from the gap between the idealized version of something (which could be a small thing like how i put my T-shirts). That indeed is unhealthy.
Very unhealthy and it is my greatest source of pain.
Going back to photo library, does knowing that I am more organized (by pure guessing) that your average uncles and auties and tech-savy people comfort me at night? On the other way, I am not pissed at myself for not being OCD enough to sort through each pictures and get every details right in the EXIF. Despite those, the over-thinking (as I find it hard to cast positive or negative towards both ends) put a great deal of pressure, both phsically and spritually. It literally feels like a stone on my chest sometimes.
WHY?
I know, at least to some degree, is to ignore them. Just like my mom and dad would simply ignore the mess and the pop-up in their phone.
But I keep found myself going back, trying to re-write history through tideious collecting, renaming and re-structuring files, in virtual bites on my computer and in real life.
I need to stop doing that and let go.
2026-02-24 on my flight to Amsterdam.
Or should i write Feb 24, 2026. or 24.02.2026, :(
TLDR
No! Just keep working and stop trying making every files perfect!
- all lower case
- date should be 2022-07-19
- connecting should be dash “-”
It’s has been a while since I wrote, both in work and in my spare time. I have been hesitant about the title of post or should I say article. The original is very self-reflective and somehow vague: “Self Reflection Fall 2025”. Wow! That reads super personal and in some ways sounds like a patient’ log by the end of 2025. I would start with a age-old question for programmer/coders (with some OCDs)
How do you name you files?
File naming
Of course there are different convention and guideline on each programming language and official guidelines for each language. For example, you need to indent properly but the naming can get wild
camelCase
CamelCase
File_Title_Case
file_lower_case
file-dash
filealltogether
It gets more complicated with adding prefix or suffix of version number, draft, date. What should one use for date? Do you go from ‘ver_01’ to ‘ver-02’ by coping or just simply modify on the original doc.
Graphic standard: fonts, size, rendering
我发现坚持某一个习惯、软件，对我来说十分困难。 举例子，我老是觉得 是颠三倒四。
The last 2-3 weeks have been quick hard for me, the main issue is the lack of motivation and loss of concentration during work. On top of that, the shoulder injury definitely adds a lot difficulties, and
Here is the link to my chat with Gemini: https://gemini.google.com/share/e19461751ccb
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