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Well, I wrote down everything(Joplin). And now I have an absolute mess of half a zillion notes with no structure whatsoever. Trying to bring some structure in the madness.

Now a while ago, I saw on HN a system of 7 folders, each containing 7 folders,.... It seemed to make sense. The person named it after himself, something like JeffFolder. But I can't seem to find it. Does someone remember the name?

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Maybe it’s https://johnnydecimal.com?

Jep. That's the one.

I spent a year getting maybe 75% of my stuff into a Johnny Decimal filesystem with the remaining maybe 25% firewalled off into an "unsorted" backlog. It's going to be a major pain to do the last 25%, but I can say with some longevity of experience at this point that I will definitely do it because having that first 75% so well structured has been awesome. The key to it was accepting that you can always move things around and restructure. You don't have to get it 100% perfect out of the gate.

I use Joplin, and am with you on the half a zillion notes thing.

What is helping me is the "bidirectional links" plugin (so I'm linked to the the first version of the notes and don't forget it exists and keep starting again), and the "home note" plugin (so there is a hub for all those spokes).

It's a lot of work "curating" stuff, but I haven't found a better way for the way my mind works.

Can I preorder your JeffFolder system?

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