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awesome-johnnydecimal

Utilities, tools, and scripts that people have built to support the system.

LINKS TO THIRD-PARTY SOFTWARE ARE PROVIDED FOR CONVENIENCE. I DO NOT ENDORSE OR VERIFY THE CONTENT, FUNCTIONALITY, OR SECURITY OF THESE EXTERNAL FILES. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.

Add your thing to this list

Please add your entry to this file and submit a PR. Corrections & updates also gratefully received.

Check the forum

You should also check forum category 31 Apps and utilities where people post scripts and helpers that might not make it to this page.

Platform-agnostic/unsure

  • SwissArmyWrench/johnnybgoode

    • A cross-platform terminal tool to jump between your JD folders and export an index, instantly.

  • tifrueh/jdfs

    • The jdfs utility is a simple but powerful tool navigate and manipulate johnny.decimal file systems with.

  • Grayson/jdexmd

    • This tool will create both an Obsidian structure as well as a parallel directory structure for non-notes files.

Linux

macOS

  • bsag/alfred-jd

    • First! 🥳 An Alfred workflow to jump straight to the JD folders on your filesystem.

Windows

  • Johnny.Decimal folders normalization tool

    • This application was intended to quickly change a number in the folder names according to JD system; a user could easily change names of folders and not keep the correspondence between different folder levels. The application being launched inside the root folder will recover folder name consistency.

Web

  • johnny-decimal-generator

    • A web application that lets you create an index map (@emory: up to 9 areas) and the johnny-decimal-generator repository, maintained by ekafyi no longer maintained.

    • ⚠️ WARNING ⚠️ This tool stores everything in your browser's local storage. So if you clear that, or if you use this in a private/incognito window, it is easy to lose your work.

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