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Re: Johnny.Decimal

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Post by born2web »

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…

Just wanted to vouch that I was one such emailer last year... and I did indeed get a reply. Thanks again and may God bless you!

Re: Johnny.Decimal

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Post by p_l »

gfxgirl wrote: post #158
scoot wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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

also IIRC Windows Index Server has done this since the late 90s. And you can certainly configure it to index across shared drives. Not suggesting it though :P

Sometimes unfortunately you have no idea of the keywords to search for...

... or you drown under the ocean of unrelated finds, which is my usual experience with mass-applied windows indexing (in the form of massive corporate sharepoint)

Re: Johnny.Decimal

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Post by p_l »

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

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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.

There's not much to change there to actually make it "more GDPR-like". It already does what GDPR wants to cause, i.e. you don't gather Personal Data, with the only exception being the email, and given that it's not operating as an organisation it's probably in the clear.

Maaaaaybeee you might want to strip last octet in IP number from logs, but that's pretty much it.

Complex GDPR policies are only necessary when you want to store and process Personal Data.

Re: Johnny.Decimal

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Post by p_l »

_pjoi wrote: post #170
jen729w wrote: post #165

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Oh, wow. And 9 years old. Thanks for showing me this. People do just naturally put numbers in front of things, though, and I’m convinced it’s to solve the muscle-memory issue. Or it’s that I generally work with nerds and we find it easier to remember that our folder is 34 in the list of 67 rather than remembering that it’s ‘SQL designs’ or whatever. I mean literally back at a major bank 15 years ago the root structur…

FWIW, I've seen a number of financial systems, and even though accounts in the hierarchy might have names, they often have a hierarchically-oriented number with them. e.g. Accounts Receivable #15000, A/R for Foo Corp #15001 and so on.

Some accounting laws actually mandate a numbered system of accounts that is a bit like Johnny Decimal, just without subdividing for specific companies (though it's definitely possible in some approaches - it's just that you need to categorize according to official hierarchy as well)

Re: Johnny.Decimal

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Post by jen729w »

p_l wrote: post #183
jen729w wrote: post #161

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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.

There's not much to change there to actually make it "more GDPR-like". It already does what GDPR wants to cause, i.e. you don't gather Personal Data , with the only exception being the email, and given that it's not operating as an organisation it's probably in the clear. Maaaaaybeee you might want to strip last octet in IP number from logs, but that's pretty much it. Complex GDPR policies are only necessary when you…

> Maaaaaybeee you might want to strip last octet in IP number from logs, but that's pretty much it.

It’s hosted on Netlify, so I don’t even have logs. :-)

Re: Johnny.Decimal

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Post by p_l »

jen729w wrote: post #185
p_l wrote: post #183

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There's not much to change there to actually make it "more GDPR-like". It already does what GDPR wants to cause, i.e. you don't gather Personal Data , with the only exception being the email, and given that it's not operating as an organisation it's probably in the clear. Maaaaaybeee you might want to strip last octet in IP number from logs, but that's pretty much it. Complex GDPR policies are only necessary when you…

> Maaaaaybeee you might want to strip last octet in IP number from logs, but that's pretty much it. It’s hosted on Netlify, so I don’t even have logs. :-)

Then you point to netlify as responsible party and I guess you might be done ;)

GDPR compliance is overblown, when the simplest way to be compliant is to "just don't store nor process personal data"

Re: Johnny.Decimal

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Post by jen729w »

chipsa wrote: post #179
bytelane wrote: post #178

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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/conce…

:-)

Also recently I’ve been starting my IDs at `.11`. Same idea — sometimes you really want stuff to always appear ‘at the front’ and this lets you achieve that.

In the project system I’m setting up now, for example, we’re using the PMP methodology [0]. This very neatly divides up in to:

    21 Scope
    22 Schedule
    23 Cost
    ...
    29 Stakeholder
For each of these, you have a [x] Management Plan. They always sit at `2x.01`. Other mandatory artefacts will live in the zeros.

Then I won’t fill up the zeros, I’ll skip straight to .11 in each category for the things that are ‘personal’ to this particular project. I’m expecting that they will not be standard across projects.

[0]: https://www.pmi.org/certifications/project-management-pmp

Re: Johnny.Decimal

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Post by mikulabc »

I use it to categorize my video course material, guess what, if i have to add a video ill just add it 12.99 - oops i cant create another video in that sequence, but i can make it 12.99.01 :)

Re: Johnny.Decimal

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Post by mickeyd290 »

jen729w wrote: post #53
awestley wrote: post #42

This would be a good system for managing Tasks and TODOs.

(I'm the eponymous 'Johnny'.) Yep, and the numbers tie things together across disparate systems, e.g. your file system and your to-do system. So I have a project, `12.34 Whatever`, and it has some files in the file system. I also have an OmniFocus project named the same. And an email folder. It's real easy to line those things up together when you want to work on that thing.

Be sure to mention this on the web site under the "I get the idea, but why bother?" section. I just saw a reference to the JD system on the Evernote subreddit, and I'm very excited to try it. I am trying to figure out my Areas and Categories now, and I think one of the values of the system is applying it everywhere. That's a great idea. Right now I have different folders on my drive, different folders in my browser bookmarks, different folders for email, etc. Unifying them all to follow the same Areas and Categories makes good sense so the brain doesn't have to ask itself "ok, where am I and what naming convention does this tool follow so I know where to find something." Thanks for sharing your system.

Re: Johnny.Decimal

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Post by scoot »

teddyuk wrote: post #142
scoot wrote: post #126

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> 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

or you know could spend 0 pence on something and just organise your folders

Or, you know, you could be an idiot and comment on something you know nothing about. YC is the new Reddit.
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