Robb. Knight.

Three months ago I wrote about using the Johnny Decimal System - a system to organise your files, emails, and everything else in a way that means things are findable and storable quickly.

I had assumed, like a lot of things I try, that given a month or so I'd be back to just dumping files wherever and being annoyed when I couldn't find things but to my surprise the system is working. Really well. If I download a podcast episode I'm mentioned in^[1] I know it goes in 20-29 Podcasts > 22 Follow Out > 22.02 Podcast Mentions, that gifs go in 50-59 Media > 54 Memes > 54.02 Gifs, and my payslips go in 10-19 Home and Family > 13 Legal > 13.05 Payslips. I can find these quickly regardless of if I use terminal, Finder, or Alfred's find command.

I still have a fairly substantial downloads folder filled with random things but every now and again I can go through, delete what I don't need, and file everything else in the right place. I've also stuck with keeping my index in Obsidian where I've been keeping it up-to-date with related notes about my files.

This might be the first time a new system, of any kind, has actually clicked for me. The workbook, which I highly recommend, is only $19 now if you think this is something you want to try. And as if we planned this (we definitely didn't), just as I was about to publish this post Johnny announced the workshop which has a pre-launch price of $49.