Can't remember which is which but if it's organized in a top-down way (broad category first) that's just easier to look at and find stuff in the file system. I don't want to have to actually read and mentally process the names of every single file to figure out if it's the one I need. Sure, the "human readable" names are fine and good when you don't have hundreds of them you're trying to look through, but big projects I find are way easier to parse with the category naming.

[–] ooterness@lemmy.world 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)

US Army logistics catalogs are organized this way. "Cookies, oatmeal" instead of "Oatmeal cookies" because it's a lot easier to find what you need an a giant alphabetical list.

[–] blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

How any large organization gets away with not using YYYY-MM-DD format is beyond me.

Taking over some of my previous directors files is like chaos.

How anybody publishing entire internet memos without a date being on the first page is beyond me. Like wtf am I reading a PDF from 15 years ago or last month?