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Digital File Wrangling: Organize Your Filing System for Success

Improve your workflow and tame your digital chaos by learning from an expert data manager on how to organize your files.

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October 16, 2025, 11:00am - 12:00pm
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Hybrid: Online and at Graduate Student Center, 3615 Locust Walk, Third Floor (Room 304)
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Open to Penn Graduate Students Only
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This workshop will introduce practices that will help you successfully organize digital files in an intuitive and meaningful way without requiring the adoption of a new tool. Topics include creating file names, developing a meaningful file structure, documenting where you put files (such as through READMEs), and building backups into your workflow. Attendees will leave with directly applicable skills and materials that can be applied to research, courses, and personal life.

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This workshop is part of a series of publishing workshops hosted by the Libraries in collaboration with the Grad Center at Penn. Each workshop focuses on an element of the research or publishing process. During the semester, take part in in-person workshops covering citation management, impact metrics, promoting your work, selecting the right publishing venue, fair use, and more. See the full suite of workshops to support you as you make progress toward your publishing goals. Check back to keep track of new workshops being added.

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