I took your suggestion and explored these two new references. They were quite relevant, thanks. Thoughts on Camlistore: I agree with their high-level https://c

I took your suggestion and explored these two new references. They were quite relevant, thanks. Thoughts on Camlistore: I agree with their high-level https://camlistore.org/doc/principles https://camlistore.org/doc/principles and https://camlistore.org/doc/uses https://camlistore.org/doc/uses . Their presentation slides and videos gave a helpful explanation and demonstration of their functionality. The query string format and showing of live search results were very cool. I have doubts about the rich JSON metadata format, their model of mutable files, and whether I can represent and query the my kind of metadata in their system. Thoughts on "Science of Managing Our Digital Stuff": I sat down at the public library and read part of the book. Your early warning about hierarchies proved correct. The authors seem to be very focused on conducting user studies and timing people's time and recall performance. All their text point toward the superiority of hierarchical organization due to the efficiency of human spatial navigation / folder traversal. The book has some interesting perspectives to offer (e.g. human behavior, group information management, motivations behind keeping data), but I don't expect it to contribute to any of my technical design decisions.