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A system for the ‘life admin’ we all need to manage: being a human, living somewhere, getting around, finance, technology, entertainment, and travel.

10–19 Life administration your index
11.21 Health records & registrations
12.12 Home insurance & claims
13.42 Investments & assets
14.12 My mobile devices
15.34 The arts

Sound familiar?

Saving is easy. Finding is hard.

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  • 11.21 Health records & registrations
  • 12.12 Home insurance & claims
  • 13.42 Investments & assets
  • 14.12 My mobile devices
  • 15.34 The arts

Knowledge workers spend 1.8 hours every day – nearly a quarter of the week – searching for and gathering information.

Source: McKinsey Global Institute, 2012

How it works

A home for everything.

Everything lives at an ID. Use it everywhere: in your filesystem, notes, email. Read it out loud: ‘thirteen dot forty-two’.

Step 1 · Area

10–19

Life admin

Like areas of your life. They’re broad, so your first decision is always easy.

Step 2 · Category

13

Finance

Categories do the heavy lifting. You’ll naturally remember their numbers.

Step 3 · ID

13.42

Investments & assets

Labels a specific thing across your entire system. In any app, on any drive.

10 × 10

Become a finder, not a loser.

At most ten areas, each with at most ten categories. Fewer choices mean less doubt about where things go – so you start remembering the numbers, and go straight there instead of scrambling.

A shallow, predictable structure that makes finding your information trivially easy, and lightning fast.

10-19

Life administration

20-29

Side hustle

30-39

Tennis club

40-99

Room to grow…

Organising people since 2010

Quietly running tens of thousands of desks.

“We switched our whole business over and now everyone’s on the same track. Everything has a logical, decimally defined place – and it’s easy for someone else to find that document again when they need it.”
— Des, Datum Machines
“The Small Business System can sort of also be considered a crash course in small business management, not just filing and organisation. You could totally expand it more in that direction if you wanted to.”
— Michael
“It hasn’t just been helpful with traditional files – it’s given structure to my bookmarks, databases, budget, playlists. I’ve tried all the other frameworks, and this is the first time I trust my system more as it grows.”
— Victoria
“The internet is brimming with catchy systems, but I feel like y’all are the only people building a foundation for living in the digital age. That other stuff will come and go – my JD system is here to stay.”
— Jeff, Lovett Sundries

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Everything is hand-crafted by two passionate humans. You can upgrade later and we’ll discount the amount you’ve already paid. And of course there’s a money-back guarantee.

The documentation

Free

A decade of thought, and still evolving. The core system will always be free to read and implement. Open community.

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