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Re: Johnny.Decimal

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Post by izhak »

jen729w wrote: post #40

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…

Say I have two businesses. How do I go from here? Do I have to have separate spaces with separate enumeration within each of them? Thank you!

Re: Johnny.Decimal

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Post by memetherapy »

jen729w wrote: post #40

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…

It does feel entertaining to read the comments from people who have so obviously never worked for a large (or old) organisation doing an admin related job who think that spotlight or fuzzy search will save them. In a previous job I had to respond to freedom of information requests for a public sector organisation with more than 20,000 employees, which meant deep diving different departments shared drives and shared inboxes. The vast majority had no real structure at all and good luck finding a system that can search dozens of silo'd shared drives for info in .pdf and .doc files with permission systems that have evolved over decades. Discovering that the R&I division (which had several thousand employees on its own) mostly used johnny.decimal on their shared drives and often in their personal spaces was like discovering a tribe of ray gun wielding supermen in the depths of stone age Norfolk. It just makes life easy.

Re: Johnny.Decimal

#104

Post by chipsa »

pix64 wrote: post #91

What happens when the counter reaches 0.99?

> “What happens when I get to 99?”

> You never will. And if you do, the category you defined was almost certainly too broad. Split it up.[0]

Alternatively, your IDs are too narrow, so you should be stuffing more into each ID folder. That is, to modify an example from the website: You have "14.01 1601 Timesheet". But you have a new ID for every pay period. So you have "14.02 1602 Timesheet".

Better would just be have "14.01 Timesheets", and each timesheet gets the year and week prepended to it.

He discusses this a bit in the exceptions page[1]. This is where he both makes subfolders, and talks about storing things with dates in them.

[0]:https://johnnydecimal.com/concepts/ids/ [1]:https://johnnydecimal.com/concepts/exceptions-to-the-rules/

Re: Johnny.Decimal

#105

Post by pantulis »

This is it. The key aspect for any productivity or "second brain" tool is the overarching taxonomy. Wheter you use Johnny.Decimal or Zettelkasten or whatever the trend is, you need to sit, think this stuff hard enough, configure the same exact taxonomy in your weapons of choice (say Evernote, Omnifocus, Gmail) and then stick, stick, stick to it. Also remember to review it from time to time, is it working as expected?

Otherwise you end up with a digital ball of mud, and you can only extract info from your system using the search. Maybe this works for you, maybe not.

I like that Johnny.Decimal assigns memorable ids to the categories, this is absolutely nice and is easy to follow by members of a team.

Re: Johnny.Decimal

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Post by eckesicle »

jen729w wrote: post #40

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…

Love this idea, and I want to adopt it for our organisation. Could you advise what you would do in the following situation though? I imagine one folder called "1 Projects" and immediately stumble upon an issue. We have 100's projects, not 10's.

Do I introduce another decimal point? Like so: "1.123.0"

Re: Johnny.Decimal

#108

Post by spondyl »

jen729w wrote: post #73
erklik wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I needed to hear that, thank you. <3

I'd love to know if you have any tips on your images like were they preprocessed or scaled down? They're really well done and still high quality despite loading quick?

Re: Johnny.Decimal

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Post by fidelramos »

Ozzie_osman wrote: post #65
jen729w wrote: post #40

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…

The HN comments always sting a little. My guess is the cynics are the ones who usually comment while people who are more positive will probably be more likely to just upvote? So my recommendation (having had a couple HN-front pagers) would be to be encouraged by the upvotes and the attention, while keeping your skin thick.. But also learning from the criticism what you can improve.

I just want to +1 this is a mostly-positive user who mostly upvotes rather than comment. I'm sure there's plenty of us, so don't feel discouraged.

Re: Johnny.Decimal

#110

Post by jen729w »

eckesicle wrote: post #107
jen729w wrote: post #40

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…

Love this idea, and I want to adopt it for our organisation. Could you advise what you would do in the following situation though? I imagine one folder called "1 Projects" and immediately stumble upon an issue. We have 100's projects, not 10's. Do I introduce another decimal point? Like so: "1.123.0"

Multiple projects: https://play.johnnydecimal.com/johnny.decimal/projects

My top-priority job as soon as I get time over Xmas is to get (an updated, better) version of this up on the main site. It’s the #1 question I get asked.

Took me a few years to figure this one out but I’ve been running it in anger now for a year and I can say that it works.

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