> You never will. And if you do, the category you defined was almost certainly too broad. Split it up.[0]
Alternatively, your IDs are too narrow, so you should be stuffing more into each ID folder. That is, to modify an example from the website: You have "14.01 1601 Timesheet". But you have a new ID for every pay period. So you have "14.02 1602 Timesheet".
Better would just be have "14.01 Timesheets", and each timesheet gets the year and week prepended to it.
He discusses this a bit in the exceptions page[1]. This is where he both makes subfolders, and talks about storing things with dates in them.
> Better would just be have "14.01 Timesheets", and each timesheet gets the year and week prepended to it.
This is what I do. Isn’t the site clear?
I (still, 5 years later) have `14.01 Timesheets`, and within there I have `yymm` folders which contain each entry.
14.02 is still free. So yep, a ‘wasted’ category there ... but I have a hundred to play with, and really rarely use more than about 30 in a complete system.
I, uh... first modified an example, then found the actual example, changed the text, but not all the way. That's why it appears near verbatim from your website.
> “What happens when I get to 99?”
> You never will. And if you do, the category you defined was almost certainly too broad. Split it up.[0]
Alternatively, your IDs are too narrow, so you should be stuffing more into each ID folder. That is, to modify an example from the website: You have "14.01 1601 Timesheet". But you have a new ID for every pay period. So you have "14.02 1602 Timesheet".
Better would just be have "14.01 Timesheets", and each timesheet gets the year and week prepended to it.
He discusses this a bit in the exceptions page[1]. This is where he both makes subfolders, and talks about storing things with dates in them.
[0]:https://johnnydecimal.com/concepts/ids/ [1]:https://johnnydecimal.com/concepts/exceptions-to-the-rules/
> Better would just be have "14.01 Timesheets", and each timesheet gets the year and week prepended to it.
This is what I do. Isn’t the site clear?
I (still, 5 years later) have `14.01 Timesheets`, and within there I have `yymm` folders which contain each entry.
14.02 is still free. So yep, a ‘wasted’ category there ... but I have a hundred to play with, and really rarely use more than about 30 in a complete system.
I, uh... first modified an example, then found the actual example, changed the text, but not all the way. That's why it appears near verbatim from your website.