I need none of these. I just need a search engine for my files that is not completely dumb.
Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life
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#272Its a beautiful system but where my head explodes (and has been exploding for 4 decades) is over the following scenario. So in Johnny's system, I assign 21 to automobiles. My VW van gets 21.1, my Citron is 21.2, etc. and the insurance for each car gets a .8 so 21.1.8, 21.2.8, etc. And I assign 13 to Money. Insurance belongs under money so 13.5 is insurance and life insurance gets 13.5.1, E&O insurance gets 13.5.2, et…
In today's world, it would be under Ctrl+F -> "insurance". If it were on physical paper, it would be on the folder containing the important documents. Over-reliance on hierarchy has been identified as a double edged sword of these organizational systems. Hierarchy is only useful when the hierarchy itself matters, e.g. when "grab all documents about this" is a use case, keeping such documents together matters. If the…
Hierarchy is where taxonomy fights break out; tagging is the way, the truth, and the light. That's one of the many, many reasons I love 1Password over Bitwarden. I don't need folders I need tags. Same for Firefox's infinitely better bookmarking system than Chrome's, for the same reason
Re: Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life
#273Its a beautiful system but where my head explodes (and has been exploding for 4 decades) is over the following scenario. So in Johnny's system, I assign 21 to automobiles. My VW van gets 21.1, my Citron is 21.2, etc. and the insurance for each car gets a .8 so 21.1.8, 21.2.8, etc. And I assign 13 to Money. Insurance belongs under money so 13.5 is insurance and life insurance gets 13.5.1, E&O insurance gets 13.5.2, et…
symlinks or hardlinks might help with that, depending on your needs. With hardlinks you will see the same file in both locations, and if you change or remove the file it will be removed in the other directory as well
> or remove the file it will be removed in the other directory as well
Your operating system must behave way different from mine. Hardlinks in both Linux and macOS are merely "named inodes" and only when all references to the inode are removed is the storage actually subject to reuse
Re: Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life
#274Just a general observation as someone nearing 50. I'm honestly very curious to see if someone has had a different experience than me. I'm am, to put it mildly, not an "organized person". I have tried a million different systems throughout my life - GTD, Inbox Zero, spreadsheets, etc. etc. To be honest, I don't believe that any of these "organization systems" really help people that have problems being organized in th…
The best system I've come up with is to timestamp all my notes and sort them chronologically in a filing cabinet. You can link to notes by their timestamp, create indexes, calendars, weekly or daily todos etc, as necessary. The idea is that a note can be whatever you want or need it to be in that moment. Just make it addressable. Timestamps also give temporal context to correlate with emails, phone calls, or any othe…
it is more similar to logseq's journey. you can give it a try.
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Re: Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life
#276Its a beautiful system but where my head explodes (and has been exploding for 4 decades) is over the following scenario. So in Johnny's system, I assign 21 to automobiles. My VW van gets 21.1, my Citron is 21.2, etc. and the insurance for each car gets a .8 so 21.1.8, 21.2.8, etc. And I assign 13 to Money. Insurance belongs under money so 13.5 is insurance and life insurance gets 13.5.1, E&O insurance gets 13.5.2, et…
I have been toying with the idea of introducing something like JD to my system using tags though so something can be both.
I use Paperless to catalog all my PDFs, Obsidian for notes and Gmail for email, Todoist for tasks and Cloze for CRM, all of which support tags.
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#278this looks interesting but just as i experienced when i stared taking notes, you can't just classify stuffs in folders, subfolders, sub sub folders and so on because there are case where one thing might fit 2 or more folders in very distinct categories.
the author speak about travel insurance in one of his graphic, would you put it in the folder travel -> subfolder insurance but not in the folder Insurance ? it fits both case.
what happens in 2 years when you look for these contract, you arent going to remember if you put it in the travel folder or insurance folder.
multiply that by the many... many files that fits multiple case.
what a waste of time and energy.
Re: Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life
#279Its a beautiful system but where my head explodes (and has been exploding for 4 decades) is over the following scenario. So in Johnny's system, I assign 21 to automobiles. My VW van gets 21.1, my Citron is 21.2, etc. and the insurance for each car gets a .8 so 21.1.8, 21.2.8, etc. And I assign 13 to Money. Insurance belongs under money so 13.5 is insurance and life insurance gets 13.5.1, E&O insurance gets 13.5.2, et…
I haven’t used this yet, but I imagine that it’s easier to look in two places than a dozen places. So maybe it doesn’t matter if it’s perfect. Pick one of the two possibly correct categories at random and you’ve still reduced your search space. I’ll probably give that a shot and report back ;)
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#280I was looking for an organization system and came across Johnny.Decimal. I actually applied that methodology to organize my bookmarks and that's been pretty good. It does help that my browser shows all the folders and everything fits into something specific there.
For my files/folders though, it was a little much. I borrowed the concept of 10 subfolders though, and that became my new folder organization structure without the leading numbers.
High level folders are very broad - Entertainment, Financial, Food, Life, etc. Under there, they get specific quickly. Food > Cooking > Stews is for stew recipes, Food > Cocktails are for cocktail recipes, and so on.
Life > Housing > $address is for all the docs related to my current place. Life > Work > $company is for anything related to my current employer. Financial > Taxes > TY2024 is for 2024 tax docs, etc.
I found the numerical indexing to be overkill since each folder has, at most, 10 subfolders. Alphabetical sorting is much better for that - at least for me.