Johnny.Decimal

Its a beautiful system but where my head explodes (and has been exploding for 4 decades) is over the following scenario. So in Johnny's system, I assign 21 to automobiles. My VW van gets 21.1, my Citron is 21.2, etc. and the insurance for each car gets a .8 so 21.1.8, 21.2.8, etc. And I assign 13 to Money. Insurance belongs under money so 13.5 is insurance and life insurance gets 13.5.1, E&O insurance gets 13.5.2, etc. I also need…

Well, this was bound to happen one day. This is my site. I guess I’ll read the comments here then go take a bath with a bottle of gin. :-) Edit: yep. As suspected. Let me just say this, if I may: 1. You don’t have to like every idea, but please consider that some people do. 2. I’ve been using this successfully for a decade. I’m using it right now to organise a project. My boss loves me for…

I am convinced that absolutely no hierarchical taxonomy actually works in practice because every categorisation is really slightly fuzzy. Even libraries have problems categorising books into genres because some of them overlap considerably. I spent the last 25 years trying to build up useless hierarchies everywhere and none of them ever worked properly. Tagging/labelling with attributes is the only viable solution that I've found. This book is fiction/science-fiction/fantasy. This document is…

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