If you want to use Johnny.Decimal yourself or just need some inspiration for your own system, the following is a complete list of all the folders, areas and categories I have. It was worth taking time to think about how I want to structure my documents. I'm not always following Johnny.Decimal to the point, but so far I'm happy with my it. Then I've tested if the structure holds up, when a new document has to be filed or when I needed something from my archive quickly.Īfter another week, I've committed to the structured, recreated the folders on my NAS and moved my files to the respective folders. Out of that piece of paper, I've created a sample folder structure on my desktop. Over the next 4-5 days I've grouped the types into areas and categories. Each area and category then get's a number attached to it ("Donations" would be "11.01 Donations").īefore I committed to this system I took a piece of paper and created a list of every possible category or "type" of document. "Taxes", "Bank Statements", "Donations"). Each area is then again divided into 10 sub categories (eg. Summarized, the Johnny.Decimal system forces you to divide your documents into 10 buckets or areas (eg. For the last 2 years I've been using the Johnny.Decimal system. Over the years I've rebuilt and refined my folder structure many times. In short: everything thats valueable to me and which I would like to keep for more than a week. In this context, document means: bills, receipts, banking statements, insurance contracts, travel information, manuals, educational material from school, backups of projects and more. In addition to my media library, I store all important documents on my NAS. (Back in 2013 I've used HandBrake to digitalize my entire DVD collection 😎) Folder Structure & Synology Drive # In times where every movie and TV show can be streamed, it feels nice that I can stream old home videos, ripped DVDs or conference talks too. Screenshot of the Plex Dashboard with recorded talks of past Laracons In addition to movies and TV shows, I added videos of talks from past conferences (like Laracon) or my music library to Plex too. Plex analyzes my video folder and automatically builds a database with all my movies, TV shows and music and allows me to stream these media types to my iPhone, iPad or PlayStation. It can be installed on a lot of different server devices and it's player can be installed on everything that has an internet connection. Plex is a media library manager, video- and music-player. I thought I need them all.įew months later I've uninstalled the majority of apps again and kept the bare essentials. When I first got the NAS, I've installed a lot of apps. The model which is similar to the DS713+ is the DS720+ which I would recommend for newcomers. You can't buy this exact model anymore, as Synology released new models over the last years. The NAS runs in RAID-1 configuration which gives me ~4 TB of available hard disk space. It's not the most powerful device in my household but it holds up for my usecase even after 7 years.įor the 2 hard drive bays I've bought 2 4 TB Western Digital Red hard drives. It has 2 bays for hard drives, an Intel Atom CPU and 1 GB of memory. I've settled on a Synology NAS and the hardware arrived a few days later. While researching the different types of NAS I could buy, I also learned about Plex and the ability to stream my local media to my TV. I also wanted to purchase a MacBook soon and didn't want to invest a lot of money for a 1 TB internal hard drive if I could avoid it.Īfter finishing my apprenticeship as a general computer scientist I knew that NAS exist, as I have installed one in a customer network a few months earlier.Īs I didn't want to upload sensitive documents like my bank statements to Google Drive or Dropbox and didn't want to deal with different USB drives anymore, the idea of installing a NAS in my local network sounded better each day. My files lived between my Desktop and Download folder, USB drives and Google Drive folders.
Why did I get a NAS in the first place #īack in 2013 I thought about how I want my digital life to be organized. This post goes into detail for what I'm using the NAS, which software is installed and why you might consider buying one.
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