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I think there's a lot in this. The first users of the Internet saw themselves as librarians and curators, and sought to impose that vision of the world on every

I think there's a lot in this. The first users of the Internet saw themselves as librarians and curators, and sought to impose that vision of the world on everyone else. For a long time, people had trouble with the idea that everything didn't need to link to everything else.

ghaff 9y ago
Hierarchical structures are how we organized things historically. So I think it's pretty natural. I know that for a long time I was relatively careful about filing email, files, etc. into a folder hierarchy and categorizing my music collection. I won't say folders (and tags/labels) don't still have their uses. But I've definitely moved away from spending so much upfront time to carefully organizing stuff that I may want to find some tiny percentage of some day. Instead I mostly figure I can search for it if I need to.