Started re-organising system D85

12/31 daily posts as part of WeblogPoMo2024. Expect (and forgive) more words and less editing.

At the start of the year I declared 'organisational bankruptcy'.1 I haven't had time to do anything about it since then (recording the workshop is a full-time job), but I started today.

My scope statement is up.

In scope

  • Anything to do with the running of Johnny.Decimal as a business.

  • Specifically I'm going to bring 30-39 Coruscade over from my personal system. That's the company that the business operates under.

Out of scope

  • Anything that is 100% website related. I have a separate system for that, D01 johnnydecimal.com.

    • You're looking at that system: it's what gives structure to the site.

    • But if we create non-text content that then gets published on the site – a video, say – that's not in D01. That's part of D85.

And here's the first bunch of Post-its. These have come from the things I've done over the last week, which I've been writing down.

A photo of Post-it notes stuck to my wall.

Next up I'll go through our file system and get everything represented there on the wall.

Note that I'm doing 20-29 Discovery (ref. workbook/workshop) by myself, but when it comes to 30-39 Build your areas & categories I'll do that with Lucy as this is a system that we both use.

Of course if she also discovers some stuff and sticks it on the wall, that's cool.

It'll all be documented

Here at the very least, and I expect we'll do some videos for the YouTube channel.

Footnotes

  1. Which, to be explicit, means 'my own system is a mess and needs to be started over'. Financially we're okay, though we'd be better if you gave us money okthx. ;-) ↩