This came about because I was trying to create a filing system that used a unique serial for items regardless of system. What I came up with was day of the year with 24 hour clock and week of the year. This is more as a solution to how do I refer back to some notes/information in the future and adding onto normal note taking styles. Pile of Index Cards or PoIC is another possible solution but find I am space limited and wanted a generic system to work on cards, email whatever.
9225:1134 This represents 225th day in 2009 at 1134, the assumption is that you won't come up with more than one item per minute (if you do the use A..B etc) but have found for all practical purposes there isn't any need to. This serial number can be referred to using any reference system and every number is unique, right from collecting your mail to thinking of something to surfing the web, email etc it all works. With indexed searching like spotlight and google desktop you can search for these terms across your files/ email etc / blog whatever. What now ties these items together is a unique number a 'key field'. If you combine index number with color coded shorties you get a simple but effective system.
9w30 30th week of 2009 .. this is used for a weekly bring forward file or tickler. Just tag something with this code and make sure you check / search for the key term on sunday or monday of the week and it will come forward as well.
The current DOY and TIME as well as WOY.
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