# 22.00.0043: Started re-organising system D85 **URL:** \ **Category:** 22 Blog\ **Created:** [May 12, 2024, 5:34am UTC](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/22-00-0043-started-re-organising-system-d85/1459 "2024-05-12T05:34:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![johnnydecimal](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/user_avatar/forum.johnnydecimal.com/johnnydecimal/32/1759_2.png) [@johnnydecimal](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/u/johnnydecimal)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2024, 5:34am UTC](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/22-00-0043-started-re-organising-system-d85/1459/1 "2024-05-12T05:34:12Z")
> **[22.00.0043 Started re-organising system D85](https://jdcm.al/20-29-communication/22-blog/22.00.0043-started-on-system-d85/)** > > I'm re-organising the Johnny.Decimal system that manages 'the Johnny.Decimal business'. Post-it notes are on the wall! At the start of the year [I declared ‘organisational bankruptcy’](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/22.00.0023/).\[1\] I haven’t had time to do anything about it since then (recording the [workshop](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/14.03/) is a full-time job), but I started today. My scope statement is up. #### In scope - Anything to do with the running of Johnny.Decimal as a business. - Specifically I’m going to bring `30-39 Coruscade` over from my personal system. That’s the company that the business operates under. #### Out of scope - Anything that is 100% website related. I have a separate system for that, `D01 johnnydecimal.com`. - You’re looking at that system: it’s what gives structure to the site. - But if we create non-text content that then gets published on the site – a video, say – that’s not in `D01`. That’s part of `D85`. And here’s the first bunch of Post-its. These have come from the things I’ve done over the last week, which I’ve been writing down. ![](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/uploads/default/original/1X/e92223a55f06b045100b096e363a8be069c611e7.jpeg) Next up I’ll go through our file system and get everything represented there on the wall. Note that I’m doing `20-29 Discovery` (ref. workbook/workshop) by myself, but when it comes to `30-39 Build your areas & categories` I’ll do that with Lucy as this is a system that we both use. Of course if she also discovers some stuff and sticks it on the wall, that’s cool. ## It’ll all be documented Here at the very least, and I expect we’ll do some videos for [the YouTube channel](http://youtube.com/@johnny.decimal). * * * 1. Which, to be explicit, means ‘my own system is a mess and needs to be started over’. Financially we’re okay, though we’d be better if you [gave us money](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/14.03/) okthx. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![johnnydecimal](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/user_avatar/forum.johnnydecimal.com/johnnydecimal/32/1759_2.png) [@johnnydecimal](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/u/johnnydecimal)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2024, 11:25pm UTC](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/22-00-0043-started-re-organising-system-d85/1459/2 "2024-05-12T23:25:01Z")
Today’s post is a follow-up. > **[22.00.0044 Howcome Johnny is disorganised?](https://johnnydecimal.com/20-29-communication/22-blog/22.00.0044-howcome-johnny-is-disorganised/)** > > I'm the guy telling you how to be organised. And yesterday I confessed that I wasn't organised. What's going on? # Howcome Johnny is disorganised? > 13/31 daily posts as part of [WeblogPoMo2024](https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/weblog-posting-month-2024). Expect (and forgive) more words and less editing. [Yesterday](https://johnnydecimal.com/22.00.0043/) I repeated something that I [first said](https://johnnydecimal.com/22.00.0023/) at the start of the year: **some of my own systems are disorganised.** So here I am, this guy with a site and a blog, and my stuff’s a mess. Seems odd. Why should you trust anything I say? ## I didn’t take my own advice The simplest explanation is that, in this instance, I didn’t take my own advice. I quit my job [a year ago](https://johnnydecimal.com/22.00.0036/) and that’s when this system, `D85 Johnny.Decimal business`, started. I didn’t really know what I was doing; there was no plan. So I just knocked something together out of necessity. The system just evolved. And, to be clear, it’s not a _bad_ system. It works. We’re here, working, and we can find things. I just know that it can be a lot better. ## I hadn’t _written_ my own advice It would have been hard to follow the step-by-step procedures that I outline in the [workbook](https://johnnydecimal.com/14.02/) because I hadn’t written it yet! So that’s not a bad excuse. ## Also, working it out is instructive I don’t pretend to have a perfect solution to all of this. My thoughts are evolving; the Johnny.Decimal system evolves; and the very nature of the work that we do evolves. I’m just listening to [Cal Newport’s latest podcast](https://pod.link/1515786216/episode/635a72aae3bc3da46db0b23cf13196f5). He’s giving a rundown of the state of productivity advice since the ’90s. There’s the ‘sage advice and optimism’ era of [Stephen Covey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_7_Habits_of_Highly_Effective_People), then the ‘productivity [pr0n](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet#Pr0n)’ era, defined by David Allen’s _[Getting Things Done](https://gettingthingsdone.com/what-is-gtd/)®_ and Merlin Mann’s site _[43 Folders](http://www.43folders.com/)_. Then in the late 2000s we got sick of working so much and we move in to the era of ‘lifestyle design’, defined by Tim Ferris’ _[The 4-hour Workweek](https://fourhourworkweek.com/)._ And that’s where I’m up to. The point is, this stuff shifts. Whether it needs to or not, who knows. Is it all a fad? To some extent. Is it generational? Probably a bit of that. So I’m trying to think about the _type of system_ that I want Johnny.Decimal to be. I don’t actually see myself as a ‘PKM’ nerd. I’d like to help normal people — who have no idea what that acronym means and don’t care — to be more organised. Because we have no option these days. In the late 2000s you could plausibly get by without using a computer all day. Then they invented the iPhone and everything changed. So now you _have to_ use a computer, for essentially everything, whether you want to or not. I’d like to find a way to navigate that fact without burdening the world with yet more procedures; without it having to be your hobby. Most people don’t have a deep passion for knowledge management. They just want to know where they saved that receipt when the thing breaks. Anyway. A work in progress.