# Please prevent me from using sub-folders for uni **URL:** \ **Category:** Workbook/Workshop\ **Created:** [February 28, 2024, 3:14pm UTC](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/please-prevent-me-from-using-sub-folders-for-uni/1283 "2024-02-28T15:14:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![johnnydecimal](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/user_avatar/forum.johnnydecimal.com/johnnydecimal/32/1759_2.png) [@johnnydecimal](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/u/johnnydecimal)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2024, 7:48pm UTC](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/please-prevent-me-from-using-sub-folders-for-uni/1283/3 "2024-02-28T19:48:14Z")
> See the [adjacent thread](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/j-d-system-for-professors-academics/234/36) for good discussion on this topic. Follow that one as I’ll post there when I set up a Zoom session to work this issue out. We just need to focus on producing the Workshop for a while, sorry… Until then — don’t be afraid of subfolders. Be _more_ afraid of being disorganised! Which is worse? For years ‘no subfolders’ was the rule. And it’s still a loose goal: if you can manage with a very shallow structure, do so. But this is one of those cases where you really can’t. I like to think of it like sitting down to work at a big old desk. You’d get your folder out and spread out your papers. That’s about as much as you can hold in your active mind: what you can see spread out in front of you. So that’s about what you should have in a JD ID. Not much more than that. But if it helps to put your papers in neat piles: seminars, simulations, assessments, etc., then you should do that. The trick, as I’m sure you know, is to make each of these collections of subfolders identical. Design a template and apply it everywhere. Because now it’s familiar, now you won’t go crazy creating dozens of other folders. It’s more about what you’re _preventing._ Just prevent yourself going back to ‘the old way’ and you’ll be alright. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/please-prevent-me-from-using-sub-folders-for-uni/1283)._