Why not use the index as an inventory too?

10-19 Concepts 11 Core Concepts
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I’m still figuring out my JD system, but after purchasing the quickstart package, I’m sure something wonderful will happen. So, I highly recommend it.

Let’s get to it. I’m an Evernote user. My JD system will probably be transferred to a cloud with the classic folders. However, I don’t understand why not use JD with a powerful system like Bear or Evernote also as a real archive. We would have a fast tool, powerful search, and the ability to search even for content present in photos and PDFs, for example. So, I don’t understand why the ID should be a note and not a tag. Let me explain better. In Bear, for example, we should have a structure with the following tags:

tag 1 10-19 Personal
  tag 2 ├── 11 Document Management
Note bear
11.10 "Education"

In the note 11.10 “Education,” I would insert (if I understood correctly) where my files are archived and useful information on how to use the ID. Which is fine. But I wonder why the tags, for example in Bear, couldn’t be used to replicate exactly the folder structure I have on the cloud to also archive documents in Bear or Evernote. For example:

tag1 10-19 Personal
tag2  ├── 11 Document Management
tag3      └── 11.10 "Education"

In this way, I could create a note, for example, 11.10 Education - Index, which I would continue to use as an index, but I could create other notes to attach my files, such as 11.10 Education - Diploma, 11.10 Education - Degree, or even link all the attachments related to the same topic within the same note. So, what would be the downside of making the JD ID an additional tag (like a folder) to include everything related to that category? Thanks.

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Welcome, Francesco. :hugs:

You could do that! But the point of JD is that this thing already has a ‘tag’: we just don’t call it that. We call it the ID.

11.10 is all you need to relate anything back to Education. And if you name a new note 11.10+ Diploma and 11.10+ Degree, this indicates that these things aren’t the ‘parent’ note.

Want to find all of your education stuff? Just search Bear for 11.10.

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What you’re saying makes sense. Since I haven’t tried it yet and have only imagined it, I don’t really have a grasp of how it works in practice. One question: does Bear happen to have a web version so I can use it on Windows as well? Thank you!

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Sadly, no. Bear is Apple only. The simplest free cross-platform app that does the job is Simplenote. I like it because it’s so simple! It gets out of your way.