Johnny.Decimal

The JD CLI has been updated.

We've moved next week's Small Business Zoom session forward 3 hours.

Standard zero .05 has until now been reserved for expansion.

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Our Task & Project Management course is, perhaps unsurprisingly, split into two sections: tasks, and project management.

With the release of the Small Business System last year we introduced a new pattern.

This is the changelog entry for this update.

Standard zero description The .02 standard zero now tells you to prefer storing a task close to the thing it relates to.

Standard zero description The .02 standard zero now tells you to prefer storing a task close to the thing it relates to.

Originally sent to the mailing list on Wednesday 2026-08-19.

For those of you not into AI, there are a handful of new features.

Claude now hooks into my index via my skills and a config file.

Preferring fewer, broader playlists (it's easier to manage), we renamed JDU's 'Organising our Small Business' to 'Working with Johnny.Decimal'.

This video continues a theme: Obsidian tip: link directly to a header [0130] Things: cross-link to Obsidian and back [0111] If anybody needs step-by-step instructions for this, let me know.

The previous post discussed an advanced notation whose primary intent is to enable 'parsing' of your Johnny.Decimal system using automated tools.

This post is a request for comments.

A 'Working with Johnny.Decimal' video.

A 'Working with Johnny.Decimal' video.

Originally sent to the mailing list on Monday 2026-07-13.

After discussing this at the last small business meeting, we've thought about and written down our purpose, mission, and values.

Editorial note: This one was drafted a while back, and things have changed.

Thoughts on purpose, mission, and vision statements In yesterday's Small Business Zoom call, as well as continuing our system-review experiment,1 we had a chat about purpose, mission, and vision statements.

This is a working draft for figuring out the end of our Task and Project Management course.

Vehicle registration plates provide a ubiquitous numbering scheme that's easy to enjoy: just walk around the streets and pay attention.

In opening up the ID for the topic of this afternoon's Small Business Zoom session – 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.1 Moments later the…

It took me a while to figure out what this even was.

Via Don, news of the annual meeting of the Filing Association of New York.

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I've been using an app launcher/switcher since at least 2011 – the date my Alfred v1 licence was created in 1Password – and for unknown years before that, when Quicksilver was the new thing.

I have no use for a desk calculator, but as soon as I have a desk again I'm buying a SwissMicros DM41L.

I first saw this sort of identifier years ago in Melbourne and, once I dig out the old photos, I'll do a retrospective post.

Lucy here.

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Evolving the idea of 'TGIF' (Thank God I Filed it) from last year, we're launching the annual Small Business System 'maintenance calendar'.1 The idea of TGIF was that if you 'touch' your system, tidying it up a smidge, but you do that regularly – on a Fri…

We've added a new playlist to JDU: Organising our small business.

I've mentioned PikaPods twice before.

Since sending last week's this week at JDHQ, my email subscriber numbers have gone down by about 100.

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We've both been doing our start-the-day routine for a solid 6 months now.

We added the first episodes in a new JDU miniseries: Online security essentials.

When you have the safety net of 'never close anything', you don't really have to think about where a thing goes.

Still on a quest to figure out the right pattern for work logs (also here and this episode of the Task & Project Management course), I've been tracking what I'm doing in a really simple Baserow table for a couple of days.

Lucy just noticed that a PDF she was viewing in her browser revealed something about its history when she hovered over the browser tab.

After our meeting on Monday I'm feeling hyper-organised.

We have 2 'welcome and roadmap' Zoom sessions already scheduled for SBS tomorrow.

Great post by Russel Davies at undermanager: 'Three things about data'.

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This is a super early idea that I've been thinking about for a few months.

Some time around 1998 I mentioned to my girlfriend's mam, then headmistress at the local infant school, that I could probably make her a website.

After 6 months of following the process from the Task and Project Management course, the only item in my Things Today view was my start-the-day routine.