Johnny.Decimal

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Re: Johnny.Decimal

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Post by codeulike » Sun, Dec 13, 2020, 9:48 PM UTC

I remember when everything was on network drives, and no-one understood the folders other people had created, so they created their own. So you end up with three 'IT Projects' folders, in three different places. And worse, multiple copies of the same document in different places, all slightly different.

Sharepoint should have been able to fix all that, but somehow it just made it the same, but slower. Even after 20 years, I never know where the f__k I am in sharepoint, or when someone sends me a link to a sharepoint doc, I can open the doc, but I don't know where the f__k the document _is_. I dont know quite why sharepoint is so confusing, I think its because it tries hard to pretend to be something other than the document store that it should so obviously be. Just when I get the hang of it, they redesign it all, and add some new front end like Delve.

If I join a project, something that rings alarm bells is if the Project Manager has created sixty empty folders in Sharepoint arranged into a three level hierarchy with different folders for every stage and stream of the project. Most of the time, most of the folders remain empty for the duration.

So yep I really like this Johnny.Decimal idea, simple and workable.

Re: Johnny.Decimal

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Post by temac » Sun, Dec 13, 2020, 9:51 PM UTC

> “Hey Kristy, where can I find the payroll schedule?” > “Twelve dot oh-three.”

Or, you know, don't encumber the brains of people with useless numbers, and use computers for what they are actually good are, at least better than people, e.g. use the search feature of your file browser for "payroll schedule".

Re: Johnny.Decimal

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Post by rstarast » Sun, Dec 13, 2020, 9:59 PM UTC

Putting your personal categorization number into the email subject is such a monumentally bad idea...

Re: Johnny.Decimal

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Post by Privacy846 » Sun, Dec 13, 2020, 10:08 PM UTC

I just want to be able to tag files and be able to move them across filesystem.

This scheme is the best I’ve found (some tagging software used it): `report[important,sales,veronica].pdf`.

Re: Johnny.Decimal

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Post by MatekCopatek » Sun, Dec 13, 2020, 10:20 PM UTC

temac wrote: post #5

> “Hey Kristy, where can I find the payroll schedule?” > “Twelve dot oh-three.” Or, you know, don't encumber the brains of people with useless numbers, and use computers for what they are actually good are, at least better than people, e.g. use the search feature of your file browser for "payroll schedule".

That's cool if you know exactly what you're searching for. It gets less useful as the amount of information you have drops - you basically have to do multiple searches and hope one of the terms you're guessing will be a hit. Having categorised folders on the other hand means you can narrow it down and be sure that your search process is "exhaustive".

Re: Johnny.Decimal

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Post by Waterluvian » Sun, Dec 13, 2020, 10:33 PM UTC

This is why I love love love Gmail and Google Photos. The search engine is so powerful.

I search "driveway" and get all the photos my wife and I ever took that shows our driveway. Ah yes the cracks are getting worse.

I search email for "driveway repair" and find that old recommendation from a friend despite the word driveway having never been mentioned.

I don't need a sorting system. I need a big pile of all my data ever with a fantastic search engine.

I'd prefer if it wasn't google.

Re: Johnny.Decimal

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Post by jez » Sun, Dec 13, 2020, 10:43 PM UTC

This is why fzf is so great in my mind. The longer a file path is, the better chance I have of finding it later (whereas deeply nested file paths make it harder to find files using something like Finder or ls)

These days I hardly ever bring up file naming in code reviews—fzf just makes it so easy to find everything.

https://github.com/junegunn/fzf