I don't know how all these Jekyllites can be obsessed with "pretty links" (ugh!) and don't care about these curs'd date-prefixed files.... So much extra typing when linking or editing them. I've fixed the linking part with the permalink incantation in the _config.yml with permalink: "/:categories/:title:output_ext". But there's still the extra typing part when you need to go in and fiddle after publishing.

This is a test to see if I can just symbolically link the file to a published filename without bolloxing up the works on the generated side

Note: Success!! *Happy Dance!!* Now, one only need deal with the date stuff in the file names at the moment of publication.