How to name you Canva documents right

Oh, is he serious about a video called Naming and Saving? Totally am. It is boring, but also interesting. Ooh, the Paradox. We'll cover the basics of saving,  then we'll jump into how to name your documents. We'll give you some good kind of clear structure for those  of you who still have Untitled.

52 documents. Show how I do it and a lot of designers do it. Join me while we try  and make saving naming kind of fun and interesting. Good luck. Alright, first up, saving. Saving just happens all the time without you asking,  even if you don't name your files.

If I got a file here in the top K, there is save,  I can click on it feels good. Okay. But you can see all changes are already saved. They just, it's constantly trying to update into the cloud. It's really robust. There is a little visual cue here.

See this little cloud. If it doesn't have a tick in it,  it'll have a little arrow going, running  and around like it's working okay. And it's trying to save,  but it's basically just always saving. Every time you move something don't have to do anything. It's saved. If it crashes, which it doesn't tend to do,  okay, it will be fine.

You'll be able to reopen it where you left off. It's pretty magic. The next thing is naming your file. So up the top here, mine's called reopening. I didn't name it reopening. It started off as untitled.

Okay, reopening, grabbed it from there. Just tries to grab something from  your document to give it a name. So to replace the name,  which says if I click on it, hit delete. Okay. And click out of it. It's now called Untitled.

And how I name my documents is this. This is the structure that a lot of designers use. The one that I prefer. Um, client name, campaign, project version. So in here, uh, I work on multiple clients. Okay?

So I'll put in my one's Fox at the moment  and I use hyphens to separate the different chunks of here,  just so that it's easy to find. Later on I can find the client that I'm working on. I don't have to put the full name,  just something that I understand. So Fox is the client. The campaign that I'm working on is our reopening campaign. Okay?

And the next one might be the summer sale. It might be launching that new product. Okay, so put a little hyphen in the project name. Okay, this one's Instagram. I'll have another one with a very similar name. I spelled Instagram, wrong Instagram, okay.

Then I put the version of it at the end. So client name, easy, I'll have Fox. You might be doing like I do a lot of work for my company. Bring your own laptop. It'll start  with bring your own laptop or BYOL. Okay.

And then the name of the campaign. And then this one's interesting  'cause in other documents you might have Instagram,  Facebook, if you're using Photoshop, I would keep Instagram,  Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, all the different kind  of like social ads that I'm making in the  one Photoshop document. You can't do that in Canva, mainly  because you can't have different size, uh,  pages in one design. So I couldn't have like a horizontal long one. Okay? I couldn't have a US letter  or an A four document in here as well.

I have to have separate ones. I'd have Fox reopening, um, maybe workbook. If it was that US letter, I'll have another one  that might say Facebook or Pinterest. Defending if the sizes are different. Now this one here, V one, it's pretty easy, version K. I'll send this off to the client.

Come back, get version two, three. Okay? Just so that you don't end it with this, you've done it. Final, new, new. Okay, so just start off  with a V at the beginning, a version one. It'll just make organizing  Your designs a lot easier.

You can name your specific pages here as well. So I'm gonna call this one, option one, okay? And then down here, this one here is gonna be called  option two. This will change depending on the document,  whether other versions or concepts  or just page one and page two. That's fine too. All the while it's magically saving for us.

One thing is if I close down this tab here,  you can see I get back to my home screen here  and it'll show me things, see how easy that is. Then when I'm looking for Fox, I can go up here  and say, all right, everything to do with Fox. Hit enter. And it's only given me my Fox things. Here's one I was practicing with earlier, okay? There's my mood board that I used.

We'll do a mood board together as well. And there's a thing we're working on. It just kind of cuts it all down through my designs. And if I want to get a bit fancier, I can go to reopening. Reopening, okay? And it's gonna gimme all the  reopening documents that I've worked on.

I'm gonna go back to home, okay? And I'm gonna go to here, and you can do it here as well. Rename it. Say if you haven't done it  and you're like, oh, this one here called Daniel,  it's not good, you can click on there and change the name. Alright, let's reopening our, well-named Fox,  our Fox reopening Instagram V one. Yours is gonna be different.

Your client is gonna have a  different animal, but there you go. Boring old, saving and naming. There are some different, more advanced levels  that we will cover later, later in the course  with folders and good stuff. But for the moment, that'll get us going. And even if you do nothing else,  your future self will be very happy about  you actually naming things. Final.

Final, actually exciting stuff. Alright, that is it. I will see you in the next video  for some actually exciting things. See you there.