Quoting the article: > This is reflected in the structure of our Home folders. We tend to put still images in Pictures, video in Movies, mail in Mail, then in

Quoting the article: > This is reflected in the structure of our Home folders. We tend to put still images in Pictures, video in Movies, mail in Mail, then in Documents we collate content from those folders by duplicating it into finished documents. > So long as we remain wedded to directory paths as a means of referencing files and folders, much of our storage will contain duplicated content. Bookmarks are a central part of a more advanced approach to structuring and organising content which can at last move on from the primitive constraints of MS-DOS. > I think that we will see more, not less, use of Bookmarks as enduring file references in future versions of macOS. They don’t spell the end of inodes, aliases, links, or directory paths, but they need to be made much more accessible to users and sysadmins. On the contrary, I think all of these approaches (duplication, bookmarks, inodes, symlinks) are destined to fail. I believe the problem of file organization cannot be solved adequately in a system of hierarchical mutable folders/files. With regards to duplication, I propose the use of hash references. For example, you can put a picture somewhere on your disk, and let it be retrievable by its SHA-256 hash. Then, when you create a document that includes the picture, simply point to it by hash value - this avoids the need to duplicate the full picture content into the document.