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:ID: 2020-03-18-demo-date2name
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This is part of a multi-step demo:

1. [[id:2020-03-18-demo-filetags-intro][Demo introduction]]
2. *Adding date- and/or time-stamps to files*
3. [[id:2020-03-18-demo-appendfilename][Appending some text to file names]]
4. [[id:2020-03-18-demo-filetags-tagging][Tagging files]]
5. [[id:2020-03-18-demo-filetags-filter][Filter files according to their tags]]
6. [[id:2020-03-18-demo-filetags-mk-tagtrees][Generating TagTrees and navigating them]]
7. [[id:2020-03-18-demo-filetags-tag-tagtrees][File manipulation in filtered views or TagTrees]]
8. [[id:2020-03-18-demo-filetags-setup][Quick Setup Instructions]]

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First, we're adding date- and time-stamps to a set of files using
[[https://github.com/novoid/date2name][date2name]]:

#+BEGIN_HTML
<img
src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/novoid/screencasts/master/file_management/date2name.gif"
alt="Screencast showing some features of date2name"
/>
#+END_HTML

What is shown:

1. Accessing *"date2name" from the "Send to" context menu.*
2. *Adding date-stamps* to the two marked files.
   - The tool is using the file meta-data to come up with datestamps.
3. Marking *multiple JPEG files* and *applying "time2name".*
   - "time2name" is an abbreviation for =date2name --with-time=.
   - The images get time-stamps from the second the files were
     created.

Never ever typing date- and time-stamps within file names again. This
simple tool is a big push for my file management efficiency.

Not shown here:

- =date2name= has many interesting command line switches to explore.

Next: [[id:2020-03-18-demo-appendfilename][Appending some text to file names]]