I feel like I must be missing something, but I feel like tags is just a band-aid. If you have enough files, you will end up with too many tags to manage (think

I feel like I must be missing something, but I feel like tags is just a band-aid. If you have enough files, you will end up with too many tags to manage (think of a tag directory filled with tag files, instead of a home directory filled with actual files), so you'll need hierarchical tags. Or kludge it with "tag/subtag" which looks a lot like a directory. GMail added nested tags, which seems to me like an admission that flat tags is not sufficient. One problem is that regular people don't know how to organize a hierarchy. General -> specific works really well, but that requires the ability to generalize. The only use I can see for tags is if you want files to be a member of more than one directory. Other than music, everything I have is generally created for a specific purpose, so tags are not particularly helpful.