Hi All,
Andre here from Cape Town, South Africa. I first purchased the workbook late last year but did not implement. My excuse was I’m waiting for this video workshop course I knew Johnny was working on. Starting the course now, later than most but I will catchup this week. Looking forward to journeying with you all over the next few weeks.
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Cool mind map! I think this will be a common theme so we just have to recognise it and be okay with it. But perhaps this makes the exercise in the 30s where you ‘look at it both ways’ even more important? That’ll make sense when we get there, let me know how you feel later…
A bit overwhelmed? Some encouragement
Someone wrote me and the essential message was: I’ve got too much stuff to organise; I’m overwhelmed; I really need to focus on writing my book now and so should I drop a bunch of other stuff for now and come back to organising it later? As in, should I not even attempt to discover it?
I think this is probably common. So here’s my response in case it helps someone else.
Later in the workshop (in the 40-49s), Lucy realises that she can partially organise her life while leaving a whole bunch of other stuff more organised than before, but not completely organised.
Hmm it’s hard to explain. Let’s say we found a way to take everything. Call it 100 things. And we can neatly organise 5 of those things — so that’d be your book and your health — and leave the other 95 things in buckets to be organised but that don’t require much mental energy at this stage. You can come back to them later.
We do this by defining categories for all 100 things, but then rather than fully organising everything in every category — a lot of work — we create category inboxes and we can just drop stuff in there for later sorting.
Lucy has found this really convenient. I’d recommend you do the same: keep going with everything in scope, but know that when it comes time, you can focus on the stuff that’s important now, and you won’t be overwhelmed with everything else.
So, my advice: keep it all in scope. Do Discovery once — but in the next sections you’ll see how you can leave some stuff for later while you continue with what’s important.
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Hi Robert! FYI there’s a long running thread on this forum which covers this topic.
TL;DR: standard Johnny.Decimal doesn’t handle ‘the academic situation’ very well because you’re likely to have more than 10 courses/classes/etc. So we need to think of something else.
I’ll be setting up sessions to work through this with the community. I’ve been waiting until we got the workshop out the door; I’ll kick this off next week with some sort of requirements-gathering survey.
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Onwards and upwards! Discovery is fun.
Everyone okay with scope before we move on?
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I started watching discovery today. Got some Post-its on the wall, but they are already drooping. Will I switch to a Mindnode file? Time will tell, this week!
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All of Lucy’s were stuck on with a dab of Blu Tack!
I think it’s because the Post-it is ripped from the stack too quickly. This causes it to curl and the glue isn’t effective. You have to be gentle…
Oh yes, also peel from the side to prevent upwards curling!
Yeah … I admit to blu-tacking all of mine up. Temperature and humidity changes played havoc with them otherwise. But it was worth it to have a colourful wall for a few weeks. 
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Oh, hey 
Though I’m not surprised to find other Obsidianites here. That community is how I discovered Johnny.Decimal in the fist place.
This reminds me of something that happens in my home all the time. We call them DOOM piles (Didn’t Organise, Only Moved). But you can use them to get closer to organisation: DOOM pile for the bathroom, DOOM pile for the office, etc.
I like this idea a lot, actually. I might add something similar to my scope.
EDIT: Just started 20-29, and 22 Places to look is basically this, lol.
From Tom on Mastodon:
Hi Johnny! For physical places in 22 Places to look (workshop), may I suggest the car as well?
A great idea! Can you tell we don’t own one?
Let’s be seeing some photos of sticky notes, kids! 
On the first day of post-its, my notebook gave to me…
Using all the same color to help reduce the temptation to color-code or categorize them from the start. 26 so far.
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If there’s one thing I want to be known for, it’s being angry at people for being organised before I’ve told them to be.
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Hey hey, is everyone good? Sorry, been a bit quiet but I assume you’re all just figuring out how to get a Post-it note to stick to a wall? 
I decided to do mine in a mind-map. I’m using an Obsidian plugin which builds the mind-map as a markdown file — basically a bullet point list.
I’ve actually found it easier to just brain dump onto this bullet point list.
I’m not trying to organise anything, but some things are just naturally forming an indented list under another, like:
- kids documents
- school docs
- immunisation records
- birth certificates
This comes about because I think “kids documents” and add it, then the more specific stuff starts flowing, and I know I need to remember those things specifically and just saying “kids documents” isn’t enough.
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I have found that most of mine are tasks and documents. I feel I should have more Post-its than I do?
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That can’t be everything?!