A few years ago I was in my Boss’ office in Interactve Services. He was showing me something on his computer, and I saw that his filing system was a system of folders named according to the date. So he never had a build up of files in one particular place.

I took this system on-board and modified it to my needs, and just thought I’d share it here. I have a folder on the desktop called “_today”. Into this I put every file I create/view/save on a particular day. Then I have a little program I wrote in C# which runs at startup. This runs every time I login and takes the contents of the _today folder and moves them into a backup folder in My Documents named after the date.

Here’s the source for the app. You can have it run on startup by dragging a shortcut to the application into Start » Programs » Startup.

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