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Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life

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Re: Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life

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Post by jonaias »

lardissone wrote: post #12

I tried many organization systems, including Johnny Decimal like PARA. And none of them worked for me. As an ADHD person, I've found the best way for me is not put effort in organizing at all. For that reason I've found tools like Logseq/Tana/Reflect does a great job. I just write in the journal and tag items accordingly if required, then if I need to write some long form document, I create specific pages for it. The…

You might want to take a look athttps://www.limitless.ai/#pendant

We've received great feedback from ADHD users about how it has helped them throughout their lives

Re: Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life

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Post by BoredPositron »

ocharles wrote: post #17
BoredPositron wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You will understand when you get into your 50-60s.

Because of the volume of documents, or because of some cognitive change at that age?

Volume is a factor but it’s more about melancholia and being able to recall the years of your life.

Re: Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life

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Post by MetaWhirledPeas »

egypturnash wrote: post #29
oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #3

I think having a system is more important than which system it is. I don't see much benefit to limiting your hierarchy to 3 levels. Putting metadata like creation time in filenames is probably the wrong thing to do, since it's redundant, although it's mighty tempting-and I do it all the time.

I have found that after multiple migrations from one computer to another, some of my file creation dates are incorrect. I don't use JD but I do have a lot of stuff in yearly folders and some of it's clearly wrong. Like I know that I started one of my graphic novels in 2012 but some of the first few pages have dates in 2014 and 2019. Did a computer migration change the dates? Did some edit I did later on save it as a…

Totally agree. Consider the simple act of copying a file. Will it retain the original date or start fresh? There is a correct answer, but maybe it depends on the operating system, or the program you're using to do the copy. But I don't care. "Ain't nobody got time for that." When I want to know the creation date or if I just want a unique name I add a the date as a suffix; 022125. It also helps that it's much easier to see at a glance.

Re: Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life

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Post by lardissone »

jonaias wrote: post #41
lardissone wrote: post #12

I tried many organization systems, including Johnny Decimal like PARA. And none of them worked for me. As an ADHD person, I've found the best way for me is not put effort in organizing at all. For that reason I've found tools like Logseq/Tana/Reflect does a great job. I just write in the journal and tag items accordingly if required, then if I need to write some long form document, I create specific pages for it. The…

You might want to take a look at https://www.limitless.ai/#pendant We've received great feedback from ADHD users about how it has helped them throughout their lives

I'm still waiting for shipping to my country. Pre-ordered on Oct/23 :(

Re: Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life

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Post by hn_throwaway_99 »

Just 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 the first place. I think it's just a fundamentally different way of how I'm wired. My general conclusion is that trying to "fight" my natural way of doing things is always going to be a losing battle, and that instead I just need to figure out ways to handle my general messiness and get it to work for me. I mean, I can certainly be organized for sizable stretches of time, but whenever I start getting pressed for time, or stressed, or lose my motivation for some other reason, it always reverts to the mean.

I'd honestly be really interested to hear if anyone has ever changed from being a "unorganized person" to an "organized person", because it my few decades of life I've never seen it be successfully accomplished.

Re: Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life

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Post by skoskie »

asystole wrote: post #33
mohaba wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is?

capacities.io

This product looks awesome and the mobile app looks exceptional. But if it’s not self-hosted and in some kind of standard format,you’re SOL when the company shuts down. Even though you can export your data, where are you supposed import it to?

Here are some possible alternatives: https://selfh.st/alternatives/notion/

Re: Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life

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Post by lardissone »

asystole wrote: post #27
lardissone wrote: post #12

I tried many organization systems, including Johnny Decimal like PARA. And none of them worked for me. As an ADHD person, I've found the best way for me is not put effort in organizing at all. For that reason I've found tools like Logseq/Tana/Reflect does a great job. I just write in the journal and tag items accordingly if required, then if I need to write some long form document, I create specific pages for it. The…

This is why I love Capacities. It's object oriented with properties and tags. No folders.

I just tried it, looks good. But TBH, I miss outlining. I would like they offer a way to have an outlining mode (with collapsing ability). Thanks for the recommendation.
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