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Posted by Andy Brice
Feb 22, 2025 at 09:41 AM

Not my sort of thing, but I thought somebody might find it interesting:

https://johnnydecimal.com/

Discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43128093

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Andy Brice

Posted by Dominik Holenstein
Feb 22, 2025 at 11:05 AM

Many thanks for sharing!

The concept of organizing files into folders and nested folders is one of the big failures of the IT industry (the other one is the cell-based concept of spreadsheets).

I don’t know how huge the financial effects and losses are because we are all searching for files and other assets on our devices every day, at work and at home.
The busier I am the more I am searching for files, even those I created yesterday.
The story gets more complex the more poeple with different mindsets are collaborating on the same folders and files structures without a simple concept applied.

I will dive deeper into the Johnny.Decimal approach. It looks promising on the first sight.
But the challenge I am facing is that convincing my team mates (25 people distributed worldwide) to follow this approach is close to impossible.
There are a lot of file organizing concepts around but most of them are failing because they are too complex and require a strict dicipline from everyone.

I have been using TheBrain for more than 25 years now to overcome the “Nested Folders Desaster”. But this solution works for me only.

All the best,
Dominik

Posted by Andy Brice
Feb 22, 2025 at 11:18 AM

>I don’t know how huge the financial effects and losses are because we
>are all searching for files and other assets on our devices every day,

Windows built-in search is a disaster. But void tool ‘everything’ is surpisingly good and free:
https://www.voidtools.com/

Posted by Dominik Holenstein
Feb 22, 2025 at 11:38 AM

Agreed, the search on Windows is slow and tedious to use.

Here are two other options:

FileSeek
https://www.fileseek.ca/

DeskRule
https://www.zabkat.com/deskrule/index.htm#sshot

Posted by Bernhard
Feb 22, 2025 at 02:40 PM

Dominik Holenstein wrote:

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>
>I have been using TheBrain for more than 25 years now to overcome the
>“Nested Folders Desaster”. But this solution works for me only.
> >All the best,
>Dominik
>

I think that JohnnyDecimal is tempting if I could transfer the idea to non digital media as well. That way I could have the same structure in my physical folders. I suppose that paperless office is not an option today (for me).

I doubt that TheBrain is suited for this purpose.

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