My category grows too fast. How to split?

My initial reaction is that instead of making a big radical split, see if you can consolidate some of the existing categories.

Some examples that strike me:

  • 11.33---11.34 sound like they would all fit under 11.33_PKM.
  • I see MacOS, Linux, NAS, and a bunch of IDs that look like they might have to do with sysadmin, software tools, and the like – maybe that could be consolidated?

More generally, I’m reminded of a recent piece of good advice:

you’ve got some parent thing – using PowerBI, being a CPA – and that this should be recognised as the parent. It is the thing with an ID.
And then learning about the thing is a child of this thing.
Rather than learning about stuff being a parent, and PowerBI being a child.
(Areas and categories advice needed - #5 by johnnydecimal)

If separating learning and doing from each other feels artificial – I would feel the same – then maybe that principle helps. Maybe a (re)run of the Discovery exercise would help to identify which things feel most important to you and your work, and you can consolidate under those.

Curious, do you have titles for the groups of ten IDs? Because if not, maybe those divisions are obscuring patterns for you?

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