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Google Drive used to be based around tags, not hierarchies. It was wonderful. Then as it matured and catered to more and more 'normal' people it introduced the
by boffinism 9y ago
Google Drive used to be based around tags, not hierarchies. It was wonderful. Then as it matured and catered to more and more 'normal' people it introduced the concept of folders. The folders were initially tags 'really' - the same file could exist in multiple folders at the same time. But they made that harder and harder, and now I think it's hierarchical folders through and through.
I miss the old days.
- deathanatos 9y agoEven today, Google Drive isn't strictly hierarchical, in that a file can still be in multiple folders / locations. They have, however, made it awfully hard to discover. If you have an existing item or items selected, you can "add" them to a different folder by hitting Shift+Z; I don't think this exists in any menu. It is in the list of keyboard shortcuts (hit "?"). These feel sort of closer to some form of link than a tag, though.
- ASalazarMX 9y ago> as it matured and catered to more and more 'normal' people it introduced the concept of folders I think it has more to do with capacity growth. Relying in tag+search would be insane if most queries returned hundreds of files,
- ori_b 9y agoYeah. Imagine a Google search that returned more than 100 results. Madness!