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A system to organise your life. Keep everything in its place with a simple, structured numbering system.

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2026 78

  1. Get 18% more keys for free with this one crazy trick
  2. Forum accounts are being connected to Johnny.Decimal accounts
  3. Johnny.Decimal en français
  4. MCP server 'move in' is live
  5. Life Admin MCP access now requires a Pro account
  6. SBS Zoom sessions cancelled
  7. Things tip: moving items to headings
  8. Apple Notes now available in the LAS/SBS downloads
  9. How I organised 15 years worth of passwords (video)
  10. This week at JDHQ – 2026-09-15
  11. YouTube
  12. New documentation page: Work packages
  13. Lucy loves unsexy, boring, functional, government information
  14. JD CLI updated: now creates filesystem folders
  15. SBS meeting schedule: Tue 15/Sep moved +3h
  16. Standard zero .05 now reserved for 'AI'
  17. Automated organisation is here
  18. 'Project' section of 'Task & Project Management' course re-recorded
  19. '50-59 Portfolio of creative outputs' becomes 'W0000-9999 Work packages'
  20. Small Business System – '50-59 Portfolio of creative outputs' becomes 'W0000-9999 Work packages'
  21. Life Admin System – '.02' says to use it sparingly
  22. Small Business System – '.02' says to use it sparingly
  23. Site and product updates
  24. AI-free features now available
  25. I gave Claude my Johnny.Decimal index (video)
  26. 'Organising our small business' is now 'Working with Johnny.Decimal'
  27. Obsidian links break. Mine don't. (video)
  28. Indicating levels of Johnny.Decimal complexity
  29. RFC W0192: Use of +, ~, @; clarifying extend-the-end
  30. WwJD: Spend less time doing boring admin (video)
  31. WwJD: This is what Johnny.Decimal was designed for (video)
  32. This week at JDHQ – 2026-07-13
  33. Purpose, mission, values
  34. Once again, we failed to focus
  35. SBS Zoom minutes for 2026-07-02
  36. Thinking out loud about project management
  37. Registration review: Taiwan
  38. A realisation on the nature of information storage
  39. In need of numbers?
  40. The Filing Association of New York
  41. This week at JDHQ – 2026-06-15
  42. Hobbling my app launcher
  43. SwissMicros calculators
  44. Identifier: Taiwanese survey markers
  45. Deciding to work for myself
  46. This week at JDHQ – 2026-06-01
  47. Announcing the SBS annual maintenance calendar
  48. New playlist: 'Organising our small business'
  49. Recommendation: PikaPods
  50. 100 email list unsubscriptions is a good thing
  51. This week at JDHQ – 2026-05-25
  52. Startup routine
  53. Going to try shutting down my laptop every night
  54. Context switching
  55. PSA: PDFs leak data
  56. Why wouldn't every meeting have an ID?
  57. SBS Zoom sessions tomorrow are open to the public
  58. undermanager: Three things about data
  59. This week at JDHQ – 2026-05-18
  60. An ideas 'registry' organised with structured tags
  61. Think small: achieve something / Think big: probably fail
  62. A nice surprise in Things
  63. Position statement: AI-generated apps
  64. Spend time with your own words
  65. A new website, and a focus on small business
  66. March's YouTube roundup
  67. Monodraw: create lovely ASCII diagrams
  68. Decimal Diary: Happy 1st birthday to the SBS
  69. Documenting my security practices
  70. A Productive Conversation with Mike Vardy
  71. Post-incident review
  72. I uploaded your email address to GitHub
  73. A security incident
  74. February's YouTube roundup
  75. The 'work log'
  76. JDex deep-dive: data and storage options
  77. 'Powered by Johnny.Decimal' badge
  78. Backups aren't enough: create 'restore points'

2025 82

  1. The two-tea-towel method
  2. Lazy shortcuts lead to mistakes
  3. Standard zero 'AC.00 JDex for …' – what's it for?
  4. Commercial licence
  5. Finder folders to Markdown links in Bear
  6. Obsidian links (redux)
  7. Terminal tricks
  8. Configuration management
  9. Decimal Diary: TGIF and vintage annual reports
  10. An invoice disappears
  11. How to remember the Markdown link syntax
  12. An(other) advantage of the creative pattern
  13. Decimal Diary: Business links and food trucks
  14. Find the hidden option
  15. 🎁 Holiday season 2025: Buy one, gift one
  16. /tmp is bad
  17. Decimal Diary: Not-Kondo and deleting Canva
  18. Work log
  19. An anti-distraction trick
  20. Deliberately
  21. Personal Business
  22. Decimal Diary: Confronting mortality and messy passwords
  23. A nice JDex entry: 14.32+1Password
  24. The front door and the elephant
  25. Mitsu-bishi 9852
  26. Bum Man [safe!]
  27. The Japanese web is delightful
  28. Automated organisation?
  29. Decimal Diary: Data leaks and credit reports
  30. Listmonk on a Pikapod with AWS SES
  31. The Johnny.Decimal Workbook is free
  32. Globally unique identifiers
  33. How many things are you trying to do at once?
  34. 'Creative outputs' should link back to an ID
  35. Use your Desktop
  36. Rebuilding the site (again) (slowly)
  37. Naming hard drives
  38. Use the numbers (Luke…)
  39. A regional Japanese mall
  40. Give things stupid names
  41. Delete things
  42. Your JDex is your PKM
  43. Be a better human (a technique, not an order)
  44. Start with a mindmap
  45. The previous post has been updated
  46. Extend-the-end: a deep-dive
  47. Personal and work systems: how do they interact?
  48. Your computer is your workshop
  49. Obsidian tip: link directly to a header
  50. Tags are contextless
  51. Don't be lazy, don't be stupid
  52. JDU Task & Project Management course: quick update
  53. Tags are dumb. I'm going to fix tags
  54. I created my own platform
  55. Be who you are
  56. 0122 email
  57. Things: processing your categories - part 3 🎬
  58. Backups [SBS.14.23]
  59. Synchronisation [SBS.14.22]
  60. RSS: a public service announcement
  61. Things: principles and priorities - part 2 🎬
  62. Data [SBS.14.22]
  63. Storage, data, & backups [SBS.14.20]
  64. Things: processing your inbox - part 1 🎬
  65. Managing customer data (especially exceptions)
  66. PRM vs. PKM; getting a new driver licence
  67. Things: cross-link to Obsidian and back
  68. Things: why and how I use it
  69. I'm never distracted when I'm cooking
  70. When I migrate to SBS I'll copy, not move
  71. Dave's sticker: on the value of adding an ID to your email subject
  72. Creating 'dark mode' images
  73. Bestie's data
  74. Everything Everywhere All at Once
  75. SBS: Question about portfolio; storing brush templates
  76. The Small Business System
  77. My data storage & backup strategy
  78. Blog questions challenge 2025
  79. Goodbye, sweet ladies
  80. JDHQ is on the move
  81. 0097 tgif
  82. 21c/Q2 – new habits for a new quarter-century

2024 42

  1. Back from holiday; minimising the office; Decimal.Business update
  2. Don't type the date by hand
  3. Is 'private community' an oxymoron?
  4. A brilliant use for ChatGPT
  5. 'Small business' pre-launch open
  6. 'Small business' update 04
  7. First Principles podcast appearance
  8. I don't do Black Friday
  9. 'Small business' update 03
  10. 'Small business' update 02
  11. 'Small business' update 01
  12. Half an hour a day
  13. Using the new '+'
  14. Coming soon: 'small business'
  15. What's wrong with this data structure?
  16. Headers
  17. 'System expansion' rewrite
  18. Video series: Managing your JDex with Bear
  19. Old vs. new IDs
  20. RSS whoops
  21. Increase contrast
  22. YouTube: Focus and productivity series
  23. Slack × Life admin: an experiment
  24. 0072 6.0.0
  25. Bear Pro subscription prize draw
  26. Site refresh
  27. What is an ID?
  28. Standard 'life admin' pack
  29. File system folders from text, via Excel
  30. The classes of to-do, pt. 2
  31. Ask yourself: why am I saving this thing?
  32. D85 system and the 'creative' pattern: progress report
  33. Why my software will be Apple-only
  34. 16,337 words
  35. Regional Chinese
  36. Ellane learns the command line
  37. RSS feed fixed
  38. Get up early!
  39. Use JD to organise your tags?
  40. Goals × life
  41. Thoughts on tags
  42. Rhodia notepads

2005 1

  1. Online reviews are dead

Undated 54

  1. Building a winter coop
  2. 'Projects' vs. 'events'
  3. 0051 socks
  4. Granularity of IDs
  5. Which apps do I use?
  6. Learning Swift
  7. Request for help: how do I learn Mac software development?
  8. On holiday
  9. I cycled to the airport
  10. Howcome Johnny is disorganised?
  11. Started re-organising system D85
  12. Two (easy) recipes
  13. I went to a regional expo
  14. How I feel about AI
  15. One star
  16. More than 100 customers?
  17. Perfect albums
  18. Quitaversary
  19. Floors chores
  20. The classes of to-do
  21. I love pencils
  22. Index cards to the rescue
  23. JD IDs as a shortcut
  24. play.jdcm.al shutting down
  25. People and organisations
  26. 'Project' is now 'system'
  27. Pricing is hard
  28. Just use Buttondown, stupid
  29. Systems, data, and knowledge
  30. Starting the JD'ing process
  31. Johnny.Decimal'ing Johnny.Decimal
  32. Taming Outlook
  33. Test the Johnny.Decimal GPT
  34. Renaming a category is 'free'
  35. Site content refresh
  36. Defaults
  37. Notion template (experiment)
  38. The freelancer problem
  39. Anna at Analog Office
  40. Categorisation
  41. The absolute necessity of an index
  42. Being disorganised: $4bn
  43. Naming your areas and categories
  44. Manifesto part 4: Why aren't we given training?
  45. Manifesto part 3: You had to be organised
  46. Manifesto part 2: Information wasn't always free
  47. Manifesto part 1: The problem
  48. RSS duplicate items
  49. An old colleague calls
  50. Like rain on your wedding day...
  51. I quit my job
  52. Whatever happened to 'Business Knowledge Management'?
  53. Hello, World!
  54. privacy policy