#3

Excellent work. I greatly enjoyed the Johnny Decimal material. I think i may look at applying that to several aspects of my work in the public sector. Great job @brimwats! this was a great read :slight_smile:

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#4

Thanks, Brian, most helpful! Lots to digest here.

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#5

Nice work. Not for me though: This is a rigid system. Which means it does not take into account my future self with different priorities, values, intelligence level, view of life etc.

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#7

still a major proponent of designing the system that is best for you

One thing that Nick has been very clear about and that I would be clear about too is that this is a personal knowledge base so you should take these classifications as a starting place and make your own.

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#8

Having worked in a library for a while, I am considering how to apply some of that to my PKM. I’m just getting started. I’m not sure an actual number system is right for me, but it might help to ponder on it a while. Can you, or anyone else, give me some benefits to the number system rather than grand classification categories, such as “Work” / “Personal” or areas of interest with labels?

The thing I fear about setting up a numeral system is that it feels a little alien to me, especially when I can search and hit pretty quickly. I set up basic MOCs at this point, but as I get further down my road, I wonder if they will be enough.

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#9

What’s your approach?

#10

Currently, I’m using a main index with links to the different areas of life, for example, faith, work, home, family, gaming, etc. I have a “Learning” / life lessons page which is where I’m starting to post connections that don’t fit those other areas that I read about. It’s shelved, but not necessarily with library codes, if that makes sense.

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#11

Thanks. This was really, really insightful and a good overview. Now I finally understand Johnny Decimal.
For me and my own knowledge management approach, the rigor is too much. Like in any classification system, too many things, especially the important things, don’t fit cleanly in the system. Instead of perfection, I have concluded for me that for the price of some messiness, tags, which I clean up from time to time, work all and balance effort and return.

I look forward to more of your posts.

Francis

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#12

your summary is perfect! always make the system that works for you. I’ll have a video coming out soon where I talk even more at depth, which I hope will help you!

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#13

Looking forward to that!

#14

About PARA & PKM I really like these illustrations from Maggie Appleton:

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#15

One question, how do you combine this:

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With this:
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I am thinking about using decimal system for my “reference folder” that have my digital library in it separate from my workflow/ PARA system. The problem is that if I want to use decimal system for both then the numbers are not going to be unique

#16

No folders. MOC (map of content) hub notes for specific context.

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#17

I believe the folders in the second screenshot are all sub-folders of the folder “PKB” in the first screenshot.

In the rest of this we are just focusing on the PKB Folder.

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#18

That’s right! All subfolders.

And to clarify further, within PKB everything is 2 digits.

I’ve actually recently updated this naming in the main folder:

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And here it is mirrored in my obsidian @Archie

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#19

:grinning:

#20

If you have been paying attention to Nick Milo’s LYT Kit lately you would have noticed a major jump away from Dewey Decimal Classification. Big props to Nick to listening to the concerns raised about Dewey being a racist and sexist bigot terrible even for his time.

Even abhorrent individuals can come up with brilliant ideas, we shouldn’t just discard them. The idea/concept is separate from the individual, especially if we’re talking about something so neutral as cataloguing.

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Besides this, nice attempt at PKM organisation, but seems a bit too complex. Or maybe it’s just me. I’ll have another read, maybe I’m missing something.

I’ve found that for me the simplest INPUT → OUTPUT organization works in the top-level i.e. INPUT includes any information that I’d like stored in an organised manner; while OUTPUT is where I create new information & other things (e.g. projects, documents, etc. that I create). OUTPUT can draw from INPUT whenever and however I see fit.

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#21

Thanks for the link! very impressive :smile:

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#22

Interesting read! I shoulda been a librarian. That was my top suggested vocation based on my hs skills and interests testing.

Anyway, can you suggest good resources for controlled vocabularies?