Johnny.Decimal'ing Johnny.Decimal

It's 2024 and I am declaring 'organisational bankruptcy'. Here's the plan.

Hard reset

I'm going to reset my entire life:

• All of my files, including my personal stuff and all Johnny.Decimal related projects.

  • This includes my archived stuff, all of the 'hard drives in the tin in the garage', anything that I've kept from an old computer. Some of this goes back to 2012.

• My 'to-do' system, which currently is a bunch of stuff in a bunch of places: at least 3 different applications, as well as paper scattered all over my desk.

• My email, and how I manage it day-to-day.

• Everything else.

  • I'll discover it as I go: I haven't started, other than to type out this blog post.

In public, less structured

I'm going to do this all 'live': here on the blog, on Mastodon, YouTube, and possibly via podcast.

I'll document as I go, rather than spending too much time thinking through how to present it 'neatly'. So my organisation process will be presented more as a stream-of-consciousness vs. Lucy's more structured approach (see below).

I'm going to record how much time I spend on each of these things so you know how long this sort of thing takes.

If in doubt, I'll over-share. You can always choose to ignore it. Feedback is welcome.

Meanwhile, Lucy is doing the same

Lucy is also organising her life, but she's following the Workbook as if she wasn't one of its co-authors.

While she did edit the Workbook, she has very little practical experience with Johnny.Decimal.

We'll be using Lucy's efforts to record the Johnny.Decimal Workshop. Our hope is that she can be the stand-in for you: we hope that her experience will mirror yours; her questions answer yours.

This will be a video course to accompany the Workbook. As with the Workbook, we'll think hard about how to present this: it'll be neat, concise, well recorded, and structured to help you succeed.

This will be released as a paid course as soon as it's finished, some time in Q1 2024.

Discuss this on the forum.