Stop losing files! Name your documents like a copywriter

Can’t remember what you called that document?
You need a naming convention.

As a copywriter, I produce a lot of digital documents. It’s paramount that I organise them in a way that is easy to find.

Otherwise, I would waste a lot of time trying to find documents, rather than actually writing them.

😎 Here’s a naming convention I like to use for my file names:

Title of document_Client name_My name_Date

😍 So if I’m looking for that script I wrote for the NHS about sunscreen, it will look like this:

Sunscreen script_NHS_Virginia Chachati_April 2023

And this document will be kept in a folder titled “NHS Scripts 2023”, which will be easy to search for too.

Clients definitely appreciate an organised writer, so I implore you to adopt a naming convention you like and stick to it!

It’s the little things, like the name of a document or email subject lines, that make it easier to work with you.

How do you organise your documents?

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