# A realisation on the nature of information storage

> Sometimes it can be annoying, but the benefit of this system is that, at the very least, you must store your information _somewhere_.

In opening up the ID for the topic of this afternoon's [Small Business Zoom session](https://johnnydecimal.com/support/knowledge-base/sbs-events-calendar/) – `33.22 Annual SBS TGIF cycle` – I had one of those tiny niggles of annoyance that comes from not being able to _instantly_ recall the location of a thing.[^impatient]

[^impatient]: I'm very impatient.

Moments later the ID was found, and with it a deep realisation about the nature of systems like Johnny.Decimal: that, at the very least, they force you to store your information _somewhere_.

This is best demonstrated with the counter-point: storing your information _nowhere_. By which I mean, on your Desktop. Or just in a floating text document that you never dare close. Or in a chat window, or in one of 40 SharePoint folders whose locations you can never recall.

Forcing you to choose an _actual place_ – an ID, that you had to create – _is_ a touch annoying. It's extra work: I've never pretended that it was 'free' from a mental perspective.

But, when trying to find this thing just now, there was a baseline sense of comfort: _the thing is somewhere_.