# Storing notes inside the file folder

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**Created:** [December 16, 2022, 1:55pm UTC](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/storing-notes-inside-the-file-folder/626 "2022-12-16T13:55:15Z")\
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> [@ShiroiKuma](#):
>
> would this really be so? I.e. a numbered directory (I’ll get to the directory vs note below) and non-numbered documents in it?

Yes, this option.

> [@ShiroiKuma](#):
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> So you’d still have the JD directory/subdirectory structure somewhere for these documents?

Yes, folder `23.14` would exist in my structure and would contain those files.

For versions, one of the ‘exceptions to the rules’ that I allow is the creation of an ‘archive’ folder within a JD folder. So then you’d have:

```txt
.
└── 20-29 Personal projects/
    └── 23 Home renovations/
        └── 23.14 New garden verandah/
            ├── archive/
            │ ├── Calculations v1.xlsx
            │ ├── Calculations v2.xlsx
            │ ├── Calculations v3.xlsx
            │ ├── Presentation v1.ppt
            │ └── Presentation v2.ppt
            ├── Calculations v4.xlsx
            ├── Presentation v3.ppt
            └── Picture.jpg

```

In this case, **build a new garden verandah** is the task, which is equivalent to a JD ID _assuming the project doesn’t grow too large_.

I made an analogy [elsewhere on this forum](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/curating-project-management-to-your-needs-and-my-j-d-para-system/612/4):

> For me, a **project** is a large activity with many many activities. A **task** is just something I have to do that might have half a dozen activities.
> 
> Building a new house is a project. Painting the garage (that’s already attached to your existing house) is a task.

I guess it depends how fancy the verandah is going to be, whether you’re getting builders involved, whether it involves structural change to the house. That sounds like a project. Or are you just going to the hardware store and buying some wood and coming home that afternoon and putting it together? That’s a task. 🙃

**As long as you can find the files you need without stress it does not matter.**

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You might also, if it’s helpful, have notes related to the project. Your note might look like this.

# 23.14 Build a new verandah

- Location: files in file system.

## Building material notes

- I looked in the store and the marine ply seems like better value than the pine. $4/metre vs. $15/metre and easier to work with.
- Product code for the marine ply is 0341-331.
- The guy in the store said they were getting stock on Tuesday.

## Colour notes

- Spoke to Lucy, she prefers Pantone #145.
- There’s a sample in the drawer in the garage.

…and so on.

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