{"id":267,"date":"2008-12-20T10:30:58","date_gmt":"2008-12-19T22:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/?p=267"},"modified":"2012-10-19T12:25:18","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T23:25:18","slug":"apple-shift-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/apple-shift-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple-Shift-S"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t have a writing diary like The Daily Screenwriter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I kinda\/sorta used to. In the early days – a holdover from my old nine-to-five life – I used to have various spreadsheets that tracked the hours per day I was pouring into whichever projects. I don’t do it so much now.<\/p>\n

What I still<\/strong> do – and it’s another holdover – is save each and every iteration of a script. Having been burnt in my formative wordprocessing years by M$ Word crashing and losing hours of work, every time I open a document, I immediately SaveAs and rename the file. No, I don’t rename it whatever strikes me at the time – I have a system<\/em>. Here’s a typical filename:<\/p>\n

081219\u00a0 Bangers\u00a0 script 2.1.odt<\/div>\n

From the above, I can see that:<\/p>\n