# Is This Worth The Time And Effort? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Johnny.Decimal system\ **Created:** [April 16, 2025, 4:32pm UTC](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/is-this-worth-the-time-and-effort/2263 "2025-04-16T16:32:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 9
**Author:** ![Zan](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/user_avatar/forum.johnnydecimal.com/zan/32/1097_2.png) [@Zan](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/u/Zan)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 2:14pm UTC](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/is-this-worth-the-time-and-effort/2263/9 "2025-04-23T14:14:08Z")
The way that worked for me, was to use Trello to create a skeleton of my areas and categories. That way, I can move the cards around and easily add new cards and visualise the whole thing, kind of like a wall of paper post-its: > [@Start from my structure?](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/start-from-my-structure/2037/15): > > Hi Gabriel, I am a beginner in this system as well. I will write a proper post one day about how I went about everything. One concept that worked for me, was to layout all the categories and area in Trello boards. No one else does it this way, I just used a free tool I had on hand. I have a 00-19, 20-29 and 30-39 boards (because of how trello is vertical). Then I decide what headers fit where, one header per card. Then I can move the cards around. I ended up moving a whole bunch of stuff … The second thing I did, was go for quick wins. I knew my gmail inbox was messy with thousands of unread emails. I used my new J.D. system to delete lots of old filters and create new ones, and create some proper structure to the labels. Now I mostly have inbox zero, just need to clean it once a month. Once I did my inbox, it gave me more ideas of what was unnecessary areas that I just copied from other users, and what actually worked for me. Next I did my file system, now I’m doing photos. Next is migrating from Onenote to Heptabase. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/is-this-worth-the-time-and-effort/2263)._