Showing Impoortance in File-based Bug Management

A while ago, when I talked about file-based bug management, I mentioned using colour coding in Apple's Finder to indicate priority…

Since the finder allows labeling of files, some idea of the priority of a task can be given (although unfortunately Windows users will not be able to make this distinction):

Well, I recently spoke to Dan Glegg of Tails fame and he suggested a cross-platform alternative which I like much better: The more important a task the more exclamation marks get added at the start of the filename e.g.



Exclamation marks have a very low ASCII value so they will almost always appear at the top of an alphabetically sorted list (spaces are the only character with a lower value but filenames rarely start with a space so I don't care about them).

Thanks Dan.