General advice: you can usually be less specific than you think you need to be

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When designing your system, you can probably be less specific than you think.

This post details the single area that managed most of my life for me for almost a decade. It worked just fine.

Remember, by the time you’re in to a category — 15 Technical, say — you’re already two levels deep in to a very organised hierarchy. That’s probably enough. Scanning that list for 15.34 List of server logins isn’t a burden.

What I’m saying is that you might not need to go so deep. In the first instance, try to avoid this:

10-19 Technical
   15 Remote login details
   15.01 List of server logins

…because you might find that there’s very little else in that category. Aim for categories that catch quite a lot of stuff, and if you find this isn’t working, break them out later.

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