Final Final Final(Real)

spends ten minutes figuring out which one’s the latest

has to save it again

“new (actual)(for real)”

I used to have this problem, but now I go with one of two solutions:

• filename-$(date +%F) (or similar)
  • example: notes-2024-12-14.txt
  • can be expanded to include further time details if more than one iteration per day is released
• filename-Mk#
  • example: product-design-MkII (Or Mk2 if you prefer)
  • pretty much infinitely expandable and you always know which is latest
  • admittedly I’m pretty sure most systems wouldn’t sort Roman numerals correctly, but I rarely have enough iterations of anything to worry about it

edit: Also, with either, you could pretty easily write a script that would symlink something like filename-latest to the newest one, but depending on how you’re generating the files in question, that might be less viable.