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A system to organise your life
整理生活的系统
Johnny.Decimal is designed to help you find things quickly, with more confidence, and less stress.
Johnny.Decimal 旨在帮助您快速查找资料，增强信心，减轻压力。
You assign a unique ID to everything in your life.
你为生活中的每一件事都赋予了独一无二的 ID。
These IDs help you stay organised. They impose constraints that make it harder to get lost. And you create your own index to link everything in your digital life together.
这些 ID 可以帮助您保持井井有条。它们施加了限制，让你更难迷失方向。你还可以创建自己的索引，将数字生活中的一切联系在一起。
The system is free to use. There’s a website — which you’re reading — a blog, and a really helpful forum. I answer every email personally.
该系统免费使用。它有一个网站（您正在阅读的就是这个网站）、一个博客和一个非常有用的论坛。我亲自回复每封邮件。
If you want extra help setting up your system, I sell a workshop which people really enjoy. This is how me and my partner Lucy earn a living; we’re just two people trying to make the internet better.
如果你需要额外的帮助来建立你的系统，我出售一个工作坊，人们非常喜欢这个工作坊。这就是我和我的合伙人露西的谋生之道；我们只是两个努力让互联网变得更好的人。
The problem
问题
In real life, if you stored your stuff in piles of badly-labelled boxes you’d never find anything again.
在现实生活中，如果你把东西堆放在贴满标签的箱子里，你就再也找不到任何东西了。
If you put those boxes in boxes, in boxes, you’d never know which box to open to find the next box. It would be chaos.
如果把这些盒子放进盒子里，再放进盒子里，你永远不知道打开哪个盒子才能找到下一个盒子。那将是一片混乱。
But I just described how you save your computer files.
但我刚刚描述了你保存电脑文件的方式。
The solution
解决方案
Imagine your computer as a physical storage space. We can’t put everything on the floor, so we buy some shelves.
把电脑想象成一个物理存储空间。我们不能把所有东西都放在地板上，所以我们要买一些架子。
If we had a limitless number of shelves, we wouldn’t know which one to look on when we wanted to find something. So we get ten shelves.
如果我们有无限多的书架，当我们想找东西时就不知道该找哪一个了。所以我们有十个书架。
We decide to dedicate each shelf to an area of our life.
我们决定把每个书架都用于我们生活的某个领域。
The first will contain everything to do with our life administration. The second is for our home business, and the third covers our music hobby.
第一个将包含与我们的 life administration 有关的所有内容。第二个是我们的 home business ，第三个是我们的 music 业余爱好。
(Notice that we don’t try to use all ten shelves. There’s room to grow.)
(注意，我们并没有把十个架子都用完，因为还有发展空间）。
Each shelf has space for ten boxes. So we need to decide how to categorise the things that we’re going to store.
每个架子可以放十个盒子。因此，我们需要决定如何对要存放的物品进行分类。
In life administration we decide on a box each for finance, health, house, education, technology, and travel.
在 life administration 中，我们为 finance 、 health 、 house 、 education 、 technology 和 travel 各确定一个方框。
Your categories might be different. Maybe you own a car, or have kids. You design your system to suit your life.
您的类别可能不同。也许你有车，也许你有孩子。您可以设计适合自己生活的系统。
Our boxes have space for a number, so we label everything neatly.
我们的箱子上都有编号，所以我们会把所有东西都贴上整齐的标签。
(I’ll explain on a later page why the first box isn’t number 01 or 10.)
(我将在下一页解释为什么第一个方框不是 01 或 10 号）。
File your stuff in folders
将你的东西归入文件夹
Now we have categorised boxes. Let’s organise our travel insurance.
现在我们已经把箱子分类了。让我们来整理一下我们的旅行保险。
We put our documents in folders, and store those folders in the boxes.
我们把文件放在文件夹里，然后把这些文件夹存放在箱子里。
Every folder gets a number. This helps us keep track of them. We start at 01, and give each new folder the next available number.
每个文件夹都有一个编号。这有助于我们跟踪它们。我们从 01 开始，给每个新文件夹下一个可用的编号。
So the first item in our 16 Travel category might be a trip we took: 16.01 Singapore, Jun 2022.
因此，我们 16 Travel 类别中的第一个项目可能是我们的一次旅行： 16.01 Singapore, Jun 2022 .
The next item we file is 16.02 Travel insurance.
我们存档的下一个项目是 16.02 Travel insurance 。
And this is exactly how we structure our file system.
这正是我们构建文件系统的方式。
The Johnny.Decimal ID
约翰尼十进制 ID
Each of our items now has a number. They’re always two digits, a decimal, and two digits.
现在，我们的每个项目都有一个数字。它们总是两位数、一位小数和两位数。
16.02 22.06 31.17
This number is really useful.
这个号码非常有用。
It provides structure
它提供了结构
The Johnny.Decimal ID tells us exactly where a thing is. The numbers before the decimal are the item’s category, and they define the structure of your system.
Johnny.Decimal ID 可以告诉我们一件物品的确切位置。小数点前的数字是物品的类别，它们定义了系统的结构。
At a glance, you know what sort of thing the item contains. You’ll be astonished at how many of your category numbers you remember.
一目了然，你就知道物品包含哪些种类。你会对自己能记住多少分类号感到惊讶。
They’re easy to communicate
易于沟通
They’re short, memorable, and can be spoken out loud. Say it like “sixteen oh-two” or “thirty-one dot seventeen”.
它们简短、易记，而且可以大声说出来。比如说 "十六哦二 "或 "三十一点十七"。
This is really handy when you want to tell someone (including your future self) where a thing is.
当你想告诉别人（包括未来的自己）某件东西在哪里时，这真的很方便。
Things stay where they are
原地不动
The alphabet is a great way to organise a dictionary, but it’s a terrible way to organise your files.
字母表是组织字典的好方法，但却是组织文件的糟糕方法。
Alphabetically, things move around as you create other things. So you never get a chance to develop muscle memory: you’re always hunting for what you want.
按字母顺序排列，当你创造其他东西时，东西也会随之移动。因此，你永远没有机会形成肌肉记忆：你总是在寻找你想要的东西。
Numbers solve this problem. In our example above, the categories in area 10-19 aren’t alphabetical. They sort by the category number.
数字可以解决这个问题。在上面的例子中，区域 10-19 中的类别不是按字母顺序排列的。它们按类别编号排序。
And so when we create a new category, 17 Aardvark collection, nothing moves.
因此，当我们创建一个新类别 17 Aardvark collection 时，什么都不会移动。
It imposes limits
它施加了限制
Your computer will let you create any number of folders, anywhere you want.
您的电脑可以让您随心所欲地创建任意数量的文件夹。
It turns out this is a terrible idea.
事实证明，这是一个糟糕的想法。
The ‘no more than ten’ concept is at the heart of Johnny.Decimal.
十进制 "的核心理念是 "不超过十"。
When you start looking for a thing, you have no more than ten areas to choose from. Your thing must be in one of them: select the most appropriate and now you can ignore the others.
当你开始寻找一样东西时，你有不超过十个领域可供选择。你的东西必须在其中之一：选择最合适的，然后就可以忽略其他的了。
Now you have no more than ten categories to choose from. Repeat the process.
现在可供选择的类别不超过 10 个。重复上述过程。
We’ve arrived in a folder with no more than one hundred IDs. If you created your thing recently, it’ll be one of the higher numbers. If you created it a while ago, it’ll be one of the lower numbers.
我们已进入一个不超过 100 个 ID 的文件夹。如果你最近创建了你的东西，它将是其中一个较高的数字。如果你是不久前创建的，它将是其中一个较小的编号。
And things that you created together, stick together. The alphabet isn’t around to ruin the party.
你们一起创造的东西，就会粘在一起。字母表不会破坏派对。
Is this for home or work?
这是为家庭还是工作准备的？
Anywhere you want. The concepts are the same no matter what you want to organise.
随心所欲。无论您想组织什么，概念都是一样的。
I like it! What next?
我喜欢接下来呢？
The rest of this website contains a detailed description of the system.
本网站的其余部分将详细介绍该系统。
I’ve recorded a comprehensive video workshop with my partner Lucy. We use the 120+ page workbook to create her system from scratch.
我和我的搭档露西录制了一个综合视频研讨会。我们使用 120 多页的工作手册，从零开始创建她的系统。
If you ever need help there’s a forum, Discord, or you can contact me directly. I answer every message personally.
如果你需要帮助，可以在论坛、Discord 或直接联系我。我会亲自回复每一条信息。
Click the link below to learn more about areas and categories. And welcome to the Johnny.Decimal family.
点击下面的链接，了解有关区域和类别的更多信息。欢迎加入 Johnny.Decimal 大家庭。