Hello from a JD newb

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Hello all,

Raymond here, from Norway, and an insomniac sometimes; so this is not me being hammered from too many glasses of wonderfulness, and then signing up to JD and coming here. Possibly, maybe.

I have actually used number prefixes in my folders and subfolders in computers for many years. Oh, when did it start? Late 90s? It crept in: “Why should I let the a-z dictate my sort order? I want my Archive to be 99-Archive, and my 42-Core Questions to be there in the middle, shining bright!”

Tonight, I was telling my daily driver AI model (Opus 4.5) that I wanted number prefixes for the folders. “Ahh, Johnny Decimal”, the model responded with, and I was like “Whatt?”, so I found the youtube channel, and then the website, and here I am.

The JD system is a bit too overwhelming for my taste, but the wonderful thing is that I can ease into it, merging my muscle memory from those decades with the best practices that have been developed by Johnny & team.

There is something pleasing to know that 14.20 is a set ID; the ID for “Software & Accounts”. I don’t need to keep re-inventing my ID system for those smaller things.

So, now you know that Johnny Decimal is a thing that now also Claude from Anthropic refers to, based on the training

Thanks for creating the JD system! I wish everyone a wonderful weekend!

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Ha, this is cool. I remember when the LLMs were going mainstream about a year ago and a portion of the internet was blocking them with their robots.txt, a way to tell a web bot whether it’s welcome or not. I’m glad I didn’t do that.

Happy you found us! Welcome, and there’s no need to go much deeper than the basic level of ‘stick your stuff in the Life Admin IDs then go outside to play’. Though I imagine it’s cold outside in Norway. (Whereabouts? Just the other week we were dreaming of visiting…)