DDID

DDID stands for Denis Defreyne IDentifier. It’s my Johnny.Decimal-inspired ID scheme.

Some examples:

• 21.0705 is Nanoc
• 21.2405 is ddenv
• 21.2506 is TomatenMark
• 56.2601 is a recent acting class
• 41.2511-1 is a recent fiction writing project
• 82.2512 is my current employment

I construct a DDID as follows:

1. area (1 digit, e.g. 5)
2. category in area (1 digit, e.g. 2)
3. dot
4. year (2 digits, e.g. 26)
5. month (2 digits, e.g. 01)
6. optional: a hyphen and an incrementing number (e.g. -3)

The optional hyphen and incrementing digit is only used when it’s likely that I’ll start multiple projects in a single month.

If an ID is already taken, I use the next available one. This means I can end up with an ID that ends with 13, even though there are only 12 months in a year.