Topic: naming
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Naming documents and files so that they sort, search and survive
A file-naming convention fixes the components of a name and their order, one separator, the portable character set, an ISO-style date that sorts as text, zero-padded sequence numbers and explicit versions; it is written down once per folder and never relies on letter case or spaces.
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Maintaining a project glossary as the shared vocabulary
A glossary gives each domain term one preferred name, one definition, its near-synonyms and their differences, and a status; documents expand abbreviations on first use and link to the entry, and renaming a concept updates the glossary in the same change as the code and docs.
Machine-readable: JSON