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Hierarchically organized information vs. searchable information ... rings a bell. Oh yeah: Yahoo directory vs. Google. I've given up on organizing documents in hierarchies a long time ago. Specifically because many things actually belong in many places. Search is the way to go. [edit]: and by "Search" and mean "indexed search"
Great to see this here! I came across it maybe a year or two ago and I love how it lines up with my thinking. I rely on search as well but over and over I come back to the basic issue that search only offers up things you know to search for. A category system like this one resolves some of the anxiety that comes along with trying to establish a universal category system, while also organizing things to support future…
https://play.johnnydecimal.com/johnny.decimal/projects
This is actually what I’m running at work now. Over Xmas when I get some time an edited/updated version of this will become a page on the main site, it’s easily the #1 question I get by email.
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(I'm the eponymous 'Johnny'.) Thanks! I put a lot of work in to it and I'm no designer let me tell you. FWIW it's running on Gatsby. SHOCK HORROR JAVASCRIPT. ;-) Helps a lot that it's very light on images.
and I'll add, It's not just fast, its incredibly beautiful and a joy to browse. Thankyou :) Its added to my list of inspiration for beautiful simple websites.
Well, this was bound to happen one day. This is my site. I guess I’ll read the comments here then go take a bath with a bottle of gin. :-) Edit: yep. As suspected. Let me just say this, if I may: 1. You don’t have to like every idea, but please consider that some people do . 2. I’ve been using this successfully for a decade. I’m using it right now to organise a project. My boss loves me for it, because guess what? We…
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> This is my gotcha: how do you decide where a document go? The categories might be clearly split, but documents typically won't fall in exactly one category. Symlinks! > How do you manage temporary tags? Symlinks again! Basically you put everything in an incoming folder, maybe organized by year or month/year or even type. Then you symlink to all of the categories it would be interesting to you. Your temporary tags w…
(I'm the eponymous 'Johnny'.) Symlinks can work, and I've used them. My advice to people is usually, though, that your brain will sort it out for you. And it really does. The canonical example is "home insurance". Say you have a category of "home" and a category elsewhere of "insurance". Perfectly possible. Which one does it go in? Well, you designed this system. Your brain came up with it. I've found that in nearly…
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
Well, this was bound to happen one day. This is my site. I guess I’ll read the comments here then go take a bath with a bottle of gin. :-) Edit: yep. As suspected. Let me just say this, if I may: 1. You don’t have to like every idea, but please consider that some people do . 2. I’ve been using this successfully for a decade. I’m using it right now to organise a project. My boss loves me for it, because guess what? We…
I just delete stuff regularly. If you don’t own it you don’t have to organise it.
My addition to this: I add “Destroy after {reasonable future date}” to documents that I need to “keep”. I know, for example, that I need to keep my medical receipts for 12 months, but will never reference them after that. When I go through old documents, I don’t even skim through the contents. I just check the date and remove them if necessary.
A whole book on this is "Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age" by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger (2011).
A longer piece with the author in The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/jun/30/remember-...
And the book: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7t09g
Well, this was bound to happen one day. This is my site. I guess I’ll read the comments here then go take a bath with a bottle of gin. :-) Edit: yep. As suspected. Let me just say this, if I may: 1. You don’t have to like every idea, but please consider that some people do . 2. I’ve been using this successfully for a decade. I’m using it right now to organise a project. My boss loves me for it, because guess what? We…
Well, this was bound to happen one day. This is my site. I guess I’ll read the comments here then go take a bath with a bottle of gin. :-) Edit: yep. As suspected. Let me just say this, if I may: 1. You don’t have to like every idea, but please consider that some people do . 2. I’ve been using this successfully for a decade. I’m using it right now to organise a project. My boss loves me for it, because guess what? We…
This is a bit off-topic, but by any chance did you draw inspiration for the design of the site from Butterick's Practical Typography[0]? I _love_ the beautiful simplicity of this page. [0]: https://practicaltypography.com/
I’ll say that Tailwind CSS is a godsend for someone like me. Being able to semantically describe what a thing should look like, inline, is miraculous.
Edit: /s/tailscale/tailwind. Tailscale is also amazing.