A senior drafter pointed out a dumb mistake in my layer naming I'd been making for months

So about 2 weeks ago, a 20 year veteran at my office looked over my shoulder at my electrical plan. He saw I was naming layers like 'E-LIGHT-1' and 'E-POWER-2' with numbers at the end. He told me to ditch the numbers and use descriptive words like 'E-LIGHT-RECESSED' instead. I changed all my layers on a current project, and now when I use the layer filter it actually makes sense. Has anyone else had a simple naming convention fix that improved their workflow a ton?

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taylor92948m ago

Why did nobody tell me this sooner?

quinn_nguyen48m ago

So are you saying you just found out and it actually worked for you, @taylor929? I'm curious because I've tried similar stuff before and it only worked about half the time, maybe less. Not trying to be negative, just wondering if this is one of those things that clicks for some people but not others.