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Re:Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life by lylejantzi3rd on Sunday February 23, 2025 @07:47PM (#43154738)
What I don't understand is: why use numbers?

Using your example, you could describe the insurance for your Citron as 21.2.8. Or, you could call it automobiles.citron.insurance. Which looks a lot like automobiles/citron/insurance. How is this any different from just using a folder structure?

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Re:Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life by unfixed on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @04:56AM (#43170016)
I guess the key difference is the amount of branches that you can make at any given level.

Calling a folder citron instead of 2, gives room to have N amount of folders at that level instead of just 10, which I think is the constrain that made this system manageable.

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