Naming Conventions made easy - save time and make your life so much easier
There's no 'best' universal naming convention. It's entirely dependent on how you've set up your work. In this video I'll walk you through the four principles and two questions you'll need to ask yourself to craft a solid naming convention for your purpose. It's easy, and you'll reap the benefits of being able to find and track things more easily. A naming convention is essential to helping you scale up and boost your productivity.
00:56 Four principles to keep in mind:
01:02 1 . Scope
01:15 2. Consistency
01:22 3. Descriptiveness
01:26 4. Conciseness
01:32 Ask yourself these 2 questions to start crafting naming convention:
01:38 1. What information to encode?
01:55 2. What's their order of importance?
02:15 Example naming scheme
03:27 Dates
04:07 Avoid spaces
04:29 Avoid special characters
04:59 Readability and cases
05:35 Abbreviations
06:05 Document it and make sure everyone knows where it is
06:23 Keep it simple
06:50 Critical look at the previous example
07:59 Additional benefits