Welcome @riki.rios 
Hello everyone… I am Paul I work in a very small company that provide point of sale, stock and reporting systems to a number of well known organisations with retail as part of their customer operation. I also do some adult education teaching and writing.
I am here to keep all of the data I seem to attract in some kind of order.
I have used many systems and methodologies over the years from Lotus Agenda and TMI to GTD and Obsidian. One day I will make a list … but where will I keep it?. happy to be here.
I joined on day 1 of Johnny’s offer but have not spent any time in this forum - this will change.
Hi Paul. Great to have you with us. Not long now, we promise.
Just received the small business sticker! What a pleasant surprise. Didn’t want to put it on modern technology, as they degrade quickly. Chose my 1934 Triumph Perfekt typewriter instead. Perfect match!
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Oh this is a great honour! 
Hi All!
Newbie here. I’ve been trying to create a functional file directory for years. Searching on this inter-webby thing, came across this site.
I am truly impressed by his system, and this site. The forum has become absolutely one of my favorite places to visit. I’m certainly not as savvy as many here are, pease excuse my ignorance on some things. I’m here to learn and improve.
I’ve signed up fo the forum, small business system, and the workshops. Going all in on this one.
Many thanks for the sharing and support provided here!
Thanks so much Jeff! Lovely to have you here.
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: there are no dumb questions here. If you need any help at all, just ask.
Hi everyone,
I’m Al and I run Rebel Copy, a one-man ghostwriting and copywriting consultancy. I signed up for this ages ago but just now getting it all set up. I’m a bit overwhelmed by it, to be honest. I have downloaded the folder structure to my Mac, downloaded Obsidian, imported the Obsidian JDex.
Now apart from organising my files using the new folder system, is there anything else I’m supposed to be doing?
Cheers
Welcome. The first thing to acknowledge is that, depending on the current size, state, and age of your business, this might take a little while. Weeks, not days. (That’s not effort, that’s duration.) So just have that in mind, and don’t worry if it doesn’t feel immediate.
The biggest step is probably moving your files in. The category-level inboxes (ref. Workshop video 42 Before you start – the standard zeros) can be really useful for this: take your stuff and as a first step, move it in to the correct category. Now you’re more organised than you were.
Then, as you touch stuff, move it to the correct ID. And as you have the time, or maybe set yourself a daily target, move everything else over. Now’s the time to say goodbye to stuff: if you don’t really want it, move it to the category archive.
JDex is next, and that’s about habits. Are you already familiar with Obsidian and note-taking and all that? If so, you know what to do. If not, the idea is that this becomes the centre of your business. We all tend to think of our filesystem as the centre: it is not. Notes are quicker, easier, more valuable. They capture things that aren’t files: what about relationships, ideas, items on cloud services, etc. That’s what your JDex is. Try to get in to the habit of using it as your starting point.
When you touch a thing, make sure you know where it is. Open the JDex entry. Leave yourself notes, breadcrumbs.
It’s hard to be much more specific without knowing about your business. What’s your goal? What brought you here? What are your existing problems?
And a brief mention at 44 As you complete this process - Lucy’s system at the 06:30 mark.
Hey - I’m Patch. I’m an IT Project Manager and a DJ.
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Hi there! Welcome!
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Just found the Intro thread - so: Hi!
I’ve been on the Internet for a while (since around 1997) and gone through a myriad of organisational things over time. Stuff that stuck: GTD and RememberTheMilk (still on that one!), YNAB (now on Actual) and the7 Habits.
I’ve been taking notes with Logseq and then Obsidian but was unhappy with how to organise those things and then stumbled over Johnny.Decimal around a week ago while on vacation, trying to solve the Note taking issue. I’ve cleaned up my large iCloud Drive now with the LAS (trying to figure reasonable trade-offs for using with a family) and things look nice. Notes will be up next and I’ve started writing some Python tools that help me refactoring the Obsidian and Filesystem parts while I keep trying out ways how to use the areas and categories …
Edit: I also co-own and co-run flyingcircus.io a “devops as a service” company and I’ll likely check out the SBS and/or the workshop when back from vacation.
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Hi @theuni, welcome here!
(YNAB → Actual migrant here too).
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Welcome! I used to use Remember The Milk. Liked it for a while but now I use Workflowy.
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I’m on RTM for I guess almost 2 decades now … wow! It’s not changing much - but it does the job perfectly for what I want!
I’ve built a number of personal tools that integrate with it and I love the magic parser, shared lists and the very flexible repetition options …
The family basically won’t survive without it. It’s a life saver to have one drive to the supermarket urgently, while the other picks recipes, gets the grocery items automatically into the app, sorted into the categories where to find them and dynamically add to the list while the other person is already out shoppping … 
My stats say I completed more than 65k TODOs in my account … wow! And I know I have reminders for tasks scheduled up to 10 years in the future … /o\