# Should you put a J.D on a file?

**URL:** <https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/should-you-put-a-j-d-on-a-file/575>\
**Category:** Concepts\
**Created:** [October 6, 2022, 8:23am UTC](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/should-you-put-a-j-d-on-a-file/575 "2022-10-06T08:23:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![szfkamil](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@szfkamil](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/u/szfkamil)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2022, 8:23am UTC](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/should-you-put-a-j-d-on-a-file/575/1 "2022-10-06T08:23:37Z")

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I have a file that belongs to 11 Finance, but it is a “one-time-very-special-thingy”, so it does not really belong anywhere, at least for now. Can I just put the 11.03 in front of it and let it be? Yay! Or Nay?

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**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:** [October 6, 2022, 8:13pm UTC](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/should-you-put-a-j-d-on-a-file/575/2 "2022-10-06T20:13:58Z")

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Why not just create the folder `11.03 One-time-very-special-thingy` in `11 Finance`? It’ll only take a second.

I have many folders that only have one thing in them. @Heloise does [have a system where she doesn’t use folders, just files,](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/individual-files-dont-get-jd-numbers-right/15/6) but in that situation I believe _everything_ within her `11 Finance` equivalent is a file. There are _no_ folders.

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**Author:** ![Heloise](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/e36b37/32.png) [@Heloise](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/u/Heloise)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2023, 7:27pm UTC](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/should-you-put-a-j-d-on-a-file/575/3 "2023-05-26T19:27:22Z")

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I’m a little late on the conversation but I indeed have only the very rare incidence where a number would contain more than one file (and even in that case it would be at most two or three), so I don’t bother with folders. When the need arises, I “number” the files by a, b, c at the end of the number.