by Stever Robbins

When you're working on a document that’s likely to have several revisions, add a version number to the end of the file name. When you open the file to make changes, immediately save it as the next version.

For example, when writing my book, I named the file “Work Less and Do More v1.” The second I started revising it, I saved it as “Work Less and Do More v2.”  Keeping separate versions lets you see how a document evolves and makes it easy to recover earlier material that may have gotten changed in later rounds of edits.

For a more thorough look at file naming, see How to Name Files.