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An article I read way back in the early days of the internet said people were in one of two categories: Searchers and Navigators -- that is, people who were mor
by gardano 11y ago
An article I read way back in the early days of the internet said people were in one of two categories: Searchers and Navigators -- that is, people who were more comfortable getting what they want by searching, and people who were more comfortable getting what they want by navigating a hierarchy.
That really struck me, because I'm of the latter type, and it makes me somewhat uncomfortable to have a search paradigm thrust upon me.
- quicklyfrozen 11y agoI don't mind searching to find what I want, but I find myself uncomfortable if I can't then see where it "really" is. In a universe with just tags/labels, it doesn't feel like it's anywhere.
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- gardano 11y agoYou hit the nail on the head for me. Exactly how I feel.
- lotyrin 11y agoIn case you hadn't considered the alternative position, I get nervous deciding where something should "Really" be when that's based on a number of things, e.g. there's a multitude of hierarchies I could pick when organizing a music collection, and none is inherently correct over the others. Some things defy a hierarchical structure entirely. (I hate having a "Various Artists" folder, and those albums not being visible under each artist. I have considered symlinks, but too often software treats these as multiple copies.) I can avoid that by having my files in a content-based-addressing pool with metainformation.
- graeme 11y agoHow many files do you have? And how many projects? I'm not organized by nature, but I need some kind of hierarchy for my computer files. There's too much.
- lotyrin 11y agoTrees and hashes both scale to any size, it's about their performance based on how you access and modify them that matters. Some collections of my files are accessed entirely hierarchically, others are not, I don't think I should have to pick a single paradigm for all my files.
- kybernetyk 11y agoHeh, funny, looks like I'm both. I make use of searching (spotlight, on windows the search thingy in the start menu) but I also navigate through my project folders when I know where something is (which I usually do with my work related stuff). I'm also really missing the windows 95/98 start menu that would open sub menus instead of just being a view where stuff slides around.
- tsomctl 11y agoI wonder if that is related to algebra vs analysis.