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Re: Johnny.Decimal

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Post by m463 »

jen729w wrote: post #161
a3w wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks not valid in terms of GDPR. What are my rights and in which paragraph are those rights stated? How long is data stored? Which log files of my visit arise (just my IP and date of visit? Who hosts that site, if it's not a machine you physically own? Do they store that data? More data, like browser or OS version?) You are usually allowed to use that data for debugging and intrusion detection etc. but you still nee…

Mate, it’s a website. You come, you read it, you leave. Next you’ll want a GDPR policy for your library book. If that privacy policy doesn’t make it screamingly obvious that I’m not tracking you in any way then holy moly I don’t know what to do.

You could add a clause: "If your email address contains the string "a3w" it will be immediately forgotten." :)

I think if[1] I ever had a website, and if[2] I had advertising I would choose one advertiser per month, display a static image at the top of each page, and clicking on it would take you to a static page on an advertiser's website. and it would have a privacy policy like your good example

[1] big if

[2] bigger if

Re: Johnny.Decimal

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Post by naikrovek »

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…

What if you have more than 100 IDs in a folder, and it makes sense to do that?

I'm gonna organize my 2TB thumb drive this way tomorrow (I'll at least start) and see how it goes...

Re: Johnny.Decimal

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Post by jen729w »

naikrovek wrote: post #172
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…

What if you have more than 100 IDs in a folder, and it makes sense to do that? I'm gonna organize my 2TB thumb drive this way tomorrow (I'll at least start) and see how it goes...

That is a problem that I haven’t solved.

Elsewhere someone suggested going 36-bit. Or hex, or whatever. So after 99 you’d go A0 and so on.

I don’t love that — the neatness gene is making me itch — but it’d work.

I’d say perhaps you’re being too granular if you have 100+ of a thing in a category. I’d love to know what it is, if you want to mail me. All this info adds to the system.

Re: Johnny.Decimal

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Post by jen729w »

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…

I think you’re right, and recognising that some people just aren’t organised people is a valuable emotional skill.

Those of us that are organised just need to help those people. Or be the person in our organisation that takes control of this stuff and does it. Hey, I’m making a decent living partially because of this system.

Re: Johnny.Decimal

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Post by mickduprez »

IshKebab wrote: post #17

> None of the areas or categories overlap. There’s only one place anything can ever be. Exactly unlike actual documents. Where do I put the sales figures we use for marketing?

While sales figures are 'Financials' the actual figures are just reports.

so something like:

    ## Marketing
        - ##.## Reports (as a timestamped pdf etc)

Re: Johnny.Decimal

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Post by mickduprez »

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…

Thanks for the great site, it's a great reference for new clients when setting up there new file servers etc. I'm currently doing a Zettlekasten (note/idea organisation) which uses a _similar_ principle, I think between this and johnny.decimal you could build a very custom but efficient system. Will have to ponder further :) Cheers

Re: Johnny.Decimal

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Post by bytelane »

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…

Thank you for this! I have been working at the same company for 8+ years, and I have accumulated a lot of stuff over the years. I have trouble finding anything these days. The stuff I /can/ find is because I have multiple copies sprinkled in different directories.

After reading this post, I have started to organize my documents and projects according to the description. I feel like this is going to be helpful not only so that I can find what I'm looking for, but so that I don't have 4 copies of every giant source code repo taking up my disk space.

I do have one question: in the examples, the category shows "40-49 BlahBlah", but the subcategory goes "41 Taxes, 42 Expenses, etc." Is there a reason why X0 is skipped? Is this so you have room for something you might have forgotten?

Re: Johnny.Decimal

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Post by chipsa »

bytelane wrote: post #178
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…

Thank you for this! I have been working at the same company for 8+ years, and I have accumulated a lot of stuff over the years. I have trouble finding anything these days. The stuff I /can/ find is because I have multiple copies sprinkled in different directories. After reading this post, I have started to organize my documents and projects according to the description. I feel like this is going to be helpful not onl…

> In the example we’ve been using, 20-29 was Administration but our first category was 21 Company registration. What happened to 20?

> We reserve these numbers for ‘management & meta’ information about the category. Although I hardly ever use them, it’s rare that I have more than nine categories in an area. I don’t miss the wasted number, but I always appreciate it when I need it.

[0]: https://johnnydecimal.com/concepts/what-about-00-09/

Re: Johnny.Decimal

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Post by naikrovek »

jen729w wrote: post #173
naikrovek wrote: post #172

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What if you have more than 100 IDs in a folder, and it makes sense to do that? I'm gonna organize my 2TB thumb drive this way tomorrow (I'll at least start) and see how it goes...

That is a problem that I haven’t solved. Elsewhere someone suggested going 36-bit. Or hex, or whatever. So after 99 you’d go A0 and so on. I don’t love that — the neatness gene is making me itch — but it’d work. I’d say perhaps you’re being too granular if you have 100+ of a thing in a category. I’d love to know what it is, if you want to mail me. All this info adds to the system.

I had a go at this today and was instantly reminded of why all my past organization efforts fell flat on their face: I don't know how to categorize things, and I can't seem to figure it out.

If there is an obvious delineation, I will accept it and use it. If there is a line separating categories and that line is blurry at all, I find it impossible to both confidently choose where it goes and know where I filed it later on. I can know where to put something or I can know where to pull it from. Never both, somehow. (I am as confused by this as you are, but it is true for me.)

So everything winds up in piles, both physically in real life and in my filesystems. The only way I can remember where something is, is to remember what the pile looked like when I placed that thing on the pile. Then I know exactly where it is.

In network file folders I can find something by remembering my own history in that folder and remembering about how many items were there when I created the thing I'm looking for. Then I sort by creation time and I count that many down, and it's usually one or two away from that number, in one direction or the other.

My windows desktop is organized autobiographically as well. I can never remember what I named a folder, but I know exactly where it is on the desktop.

I'm basically a nightmare for anyone that needs a tidy environment. If you clean up my stuff, everything you organized is lost to me forever.

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