diff --git a/weblog/B4. Friendica & Beyond/B4.0012. Johnny Decimal (Part One).md b/weblog/B4. Friendica & Beyond/B4.0012. Johnny Decimal (Part One).md index 8f6f912..c8c0a91 100644 --- a/weblog/B4. Friendica & Beyond/B4.0012. Johnny Decimal (Part One).md +++ b/weblog/B4. Friendica & Beyond/B4.0012. Johnny Decimal (Part One).md @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ It's been something I've been mulling over for some time, and with the Johnny De I've read through the Johnny Decimal website a few times over the years, and I've been reading the workbook as well. But as with anything organisational, it's deeply personal and you have to take what works for you and throw away what doesn't. For example, the recommended process for organising with Johnny Decimal is to write a scope statement and brain dump all of your related stuff for a week before moving to the organisation process. Well, my brain is impatient, and if I were to follow that I'd probably spend an hour writing down a bunch of stuff on the first day, write a few more on the second, and then probably forget about the process altogether until a couple of weeks later, at which point I feel guilty about it and don't want to touch it. It might sound overdramatic, but I'm pretty sure that's what happened when I tried to use Johnny Decimal to organise my Obsidian Vault in the past. So, screw that, I just jumped into creating Areas and Categories straight away. -_[I haven't figured out embedding yet, so go follow this link for the clip I made. Spoiler warning: it contains quotes from Bluey and the Barbie movie.](https://coub.com/view/3e6xav)_ + To start with, I created a new Obsidian vault (knowing full well that this time it's going to be much more than just Obsidian). Rather than making an index note or a canvas (which I did start playing with, to be fair), I decided to just start with folders. I created folders for all the projects I've got going on from the top of my head. I created folders for documents and important resources. As I went, I grouped some things together that made sense, not worrying about how deep or broad anything went, yet. I went through my cloud storage folder for things I wasn't remembering and added those folders in. When I thought I had enough stuff, I put more effort into the grouping. I realised I had a lot of categories and I didn't feel like I had enough room for only 10 areas. But I quickly noticed that a lot of the areas and categories were specifically for software development work, while others were more personal, life management stuff. I considered splitting each of the dev areas out into their own systems, but that seemed like overkill. Instead, I settled on a system for dev stuff, and a system for life, etc. @@ -46,7 +46,8 @@ But seriously, the reason I'm doing this is because the letter makes it unique, It's going to be so great when I fix it all up on my website and can link directly to `https://death.id.au/B4.0012` — but that's still way off in the future. For now, most of my folders are empty and still need to be populated with stuff. I also need to build an index that I can easily update and add IDs to. And I need to start using the IDs in other contexts; like e-mail, ClickUp, code repositories, etc. Plus, you know, there is *actual* work to be done, aside from organising all my work. -_[Just replace the word "children" with "work" in this clip.](https://coub.com/view/3e6wp1)_ + +_Just replace the word "children" with "work" in this clip._ But I'm going to try moving my stuff over as I go, tagging things with JD.IDs as I need them. I'm trying to embrace "[Working with the garage door open](https://notes.andymatuschak.org/zCMhncA1iSE74MKKYQS5PBZ)", at least in part so I stick with it.