// DAW Sketch Namer
My music WIP folder is a graveyard of jams and sketches with names like "asdfgh" and "New 33". I never know what any of them are. They pretty much get sent there to never be seen again.
I made this to help sort that out. Pick a theme, generate a name, and paste it straight into the save dialogue. Also, if I want to go full Autechre, I can.
Hope you find it useful too.
Choose your themes
Generate your filename
To do
- Selected themes and toggle settings reset on page reload instead of persisting.
- Autechre mode re-scrambles with a new random truncation and digit every time you toggle an unrelated option like underscores or include-time, instead of keeping the scrambled result stable until you hit Generate again.
- No mobile-specific layout pass yet, the theme picker's 32 buttons haven't been checked on small screens.
Changelog
2026-07-20
- Fixed theme word lists failing to load: was fetching from
/posts/daw-sketch-namer/themes/, but the files live under/experiments/daw-sketch-namer/themes/, so Generate silently did nothing.
2026-07-06
- Initial release: pick from 32 themes, generate a date_name_id filename from adjective + noun word lists, Autechre mode to compress it into something unreadable, underscore and include-time toggles, click-to-copy.
I'd love to tell you more.