Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life

A system to organise your life Johnny.Decimal is designed to help you find things quickly, with more confidence, and less stress. You assign a unique ID to everything in your life. These IDs help you stay organised. They impose constraints that make it harder to get lost. And you create your own index to link everything in your life together. The system is free to use and the concepts are the same at home, work, or that club you manage. The problem In real life, if you stored your stuff in piles of badly-labelled boxes you'd never find anything again. If you put those boxes in boxes, in boxes, you'd never know which box to open to find the next box. It would be chaos. But this is how you save your computer files. FIGURE 11.01B. A CHAOTIC FILE SYSTEM WITH MANY LEVELS OF FOLDERS. The solution Here's one way to think about how a Johnny.Decimal system works. In this simple analogy, an area is a shelf, a category is a box, and an ID is a manila folder. Step 1: Buy ten shelves Im ... Read full article.