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Re:Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life by tikhonj on Friday February 21, 2025 @01:29PM (#43131093)
I am pretty ADD. For me, moving to a system using org-mode helped a lot. It didn't make me an "organized" person (hah!), but it has repeatedly kept me from losing track of important things and has given me a place to take tasks/reminders/notes/etc off my mind. Being able to write something down and trust that it will surface back when I need it has reduced my mental load and general anxiety.

I haven't been super organized or consistent in how I use org-mode—org-mode is great at letting me discover my own workflow and adapt the tool to what I need rather than adapting myself to the tool—and I've gone through periods where I lost the habit, but, overall, it's been a concrete improvement to my life. I've found that seeing it as a tool rather than a "system" made a big difference for me. I've never liked productivity systems (especially at work), but having a tool I can use in whatever ways helps me is a qualitatively different—and better!—thing.

Re:Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life by puffybuf on Friday February 21, 2025 @02:12PM (#43131608)
I love org-mode with emacs. I use it to organize my notes / game hacks / todo / pretty much anything using a tree structure. You can use drawers to hide things like sample code.
Re:Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life by updatedprocess on Friday February 21, 2025 @02:21PM (#43131737)
How does this transfer to mobile when you're out and about?
Re:Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life by _emacsomancer_ on Friday February 21, 2025 @05:45PM (#43134002)
termux on android can run emacs

(for making it more usable, see: https://babbagefiles.xyz/termux-extra-keys-emacs-org-roam-no... )

Re:Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life by tikhonj on Saturday February 22, 2025 @01:18AM (#43136549)
I use Orgzly on Android. It isn't amazing, but it's pretty good; I just wait on more complicated and bulk operations until I get back to a computer.