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Re: Johnny.Decimal

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Post by jen729w »

spondyl wrote: post #108
jen729w wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Blood sweat and tears? I tried really really hard to get them as small as possible while still being original-sharp.

It’s a real PITA to be honest. I’m typing this from bed and can’t remember the exact details but chuck me an email and I’ll have a look over the weekend. (Or just scan the repo if you can be bothered, but I’m happy to try to remember what I did and put it in a mail.)

https://github.com/johnnydecimal/johnnydecimal.com or hello the domain.

Re: Johnny.Decimal

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Post by TeMPOraL »

fidelramos wrote: post #109
Ozzie_osman wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Same here. I like the idea of JD very much - and I've been meaning to reorganize my notes by it, but can't ever get started on it - so there's very little of value I can add to conversation beyond an upvote.

On GP's:

> 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?

It irks me to see this comment pattern regularly being called out as "HN specific", because it isn't. It's universal in on-line discussions - particularly those on platforms with upvote/reaction buttons. There is nothing interesting in "I like it" comments, so you always get disproportionately more of critical comments ("I don't like it because", "I had a problem with it"), tangents, and low-quality humor. HN is perhaps different than most places in its strong dislike of low-effort jokes - which leaves us with just criticism and tangents. My point thus is: it's not HN, it's the Internet. It's not a mutual admiration society like you get when you go out with friends for a beer. I would think people would've gotten used to it in 2020.

Re: Johnny.Decimal

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

memetherapy wrote: post #103
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 i…

I idealize / fantasize about archiving and organizing work sometimes, not going to lie. I think a lot of people do as well for their own notes, but if they're anything like me, they don't have nearly as much stuff, or they intentionally produce and hoard stuff for the satisfaction, not because they actually need it.

There being new filing / organizing systems and apps (zettelkasten is the new hip thing nowadays it seems) popping up on HN every once in a while isn't helping either.

Tl;dr, I think it's the idealization of organizing, the feeling of productivity, etc that is fueling a lot of people.

Meanwhile I've gone through three or four different note keeping / taking / managing apps and still haven't settled on anything, lol. I also lost the need for it, now that I've gone from the exploratory phase to actually building software.

Re: Johnny.Decimal

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Post by marcus_holmes »

nobody9999 wrote: post #81
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…

Perhaps you could, rather than taking criticism personally, use these comments as an opportunity to get a broader understanding of how others perceive your work. I imagine it's a minority view here (well, pretty much everywhere), but I relish getting constructive criticism of my works, whether it's on a site like this or a review by my peers/customers/employers. That's because I have my own perspective, point of view…

I believe the trick is to remove the emotion from it. It can be very hard to not perceive criticism of the thing as criticism of oneself. Especially if the thing is something we've worked hard at and are proud of.

I use the "feedback bucket" mental trick: all feedback is shit (whether supportive or critical). All the feedback goes in the bucket, where it nourishes the growth of the beautiful roses of customer insight.

The point is to remove the immediacy of the feedback, detach it from the thing (and my feelings about the thing). But still allow it to inform my thinking about the thing. Instead of taking a criticism to heart, I can mentally "put it in the bucket". If it's useful, thoughtful, considered, constructive criticism then it will produce some insight later. If it's just spite, then it'll produce nothing.

Re: Johnny.Decimal

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Post by lxgr »

sneak wrote: post #100
m463 wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Awesome privacy policy! https://johnnydecimal.com/privacy/

I agree, except for the part where they immediately contradict themselves: > If you choose to give me your email address, I will treat it with the utmost respect. I’ll never spam you, or give it to anyone else. > In 2019 I moved from Mailchimp, whose business model started to make me uncomfortable, to Buttondown. It’s run by one guy who I trust to do the right thing.

Are you arguing that using a service provider to send email is "giving email adresses away"? If so, how do you send your email? (I guess you could host your own mail server on-premises, but is that the bar?)

Re: Johnny.Decimal

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Post by scoot »

memetherapy wrote: post #103
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 i…

> good luck finding a system that can search dozens of silo'd shared drives for info in .pdf and .doc files

https://www.google.com/search?q=ediscovery+software

Re: Johnny.Decimal

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Post by steerablesafe »

I think many people here miss the point when they point to search. The upside of an arguably arbitrary manual organization is that now everybody who contributes to it have to play book. They have to put in the effort to not break the system, and it can result in overall less chaos.

You can have additional tagging and full text search on top of it.

Re: Johnny.Decimal

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Post by undreren »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #122
fidelramos wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Same here. I like the idea of JD very much - and I've been meaning to reorganize my notes by it, but can't ever get started on it - so there's very little of value I can add to conversation beyond an upvote. On GP's: > 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? It irks me to see this comment pattern regularly being called out…

>> 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?

> It irks me to see this comment pattern regularly being called out as "HN specific"

I've heard this general rule vocalized on social media as "Fans like, haters comment".

If you get loads of upvotes for an idea and a lot of flack, those pushing back is not your audience and can safely be ignored. You are not doing anyone any favors by trying to appease everyone.

Re: Johnny.Decimal

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Post by TeMPOraL »

golergka wrote: post #92

I have a creeping feeling that systems like this (one of the most famous of them is GTD, but there are many, many others) are designed by people with a certain temperament: they are organized anyway, and their ability to continually keep things neat and orderly, following the same algorithm day after day, is what really helps them, and what particular system they choose to follow, doesn't really matter much. But then…

You're probably right in your general conclusion. I definitely understand - I'm on the "unorganized and chaotic" end of the scale. That is, I desperately try to get myself organized. I have been, for almost two decades now. I've started with GTD, done it numerous times, and went through pretty much anything I could find on-line. What always happened is as you describe: it "doesn't matter how beautiful the system is, (...) - a couple of months later it will lie abandoned and forgotten".

But! Every now and then, something from one of these systems will stick for longer. Perhaps a technique, or vocabulary, or a piece of tooling. Over time, it coalesces into this chaotic, very idiosyncratic organizational system that kind of works for you. I'm definitely much more productive today than I was those two decades ago.

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