Johnny.Decimal

Posted by Dominik Holenstein
Feb 22, 2025 at 11:05 AM

Many thanks for sharing!

The concept of organizing files into folders and nested folders is one of the big failures of the IT industry (the other one is the cell-based concept of spreadsheets).

I don’t know how huge the financial effects and losses are because we are all searching for files and other assets on our devices every day, at work and at home.
The busier I am the more I am searching for files, even those I created yesterday.
The story gets more complex the more poeple with different mindsets are collaborating on the same folders and files structures without a simple concept applied.

I will dive deeper into the Johnny.Decimal approach. It looks promising on the first sight.
But the challenge I am facing is that convincing my team mates (25 people distributed worldwide) to follow this approach is close to impossible.
There are a lot of file organizing concepts around but most of them are failing because they are too complex and require a strict dicipline from everyone.

I have been using TheBrain for more than 25 years now to overcome the “Nested Folders Desaster”. But this solution works for me only.

All the best,
Dominik