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I just went to your website and saw this screenshot: https://getpolarized.io/assets/screenshots/document-repository.png https://getpolarized.io/assets/screensh
by eslaught 8y ago
I just went to your website and saw this screenshot:
https://getpolarized.io/assets/screenshots/document-repository.png https://getpolarized.io/assets/screenshots/document-reposito...
This is exactly what I'm talking about. Tags may be supported but it's not a tag-first interface, per se.
When I open finder/explorer/nautilus on my computer, what shows up is the top level of my file hierarchy. This would be like an interface where you showed only top-level tags and then you have to click through one of those to get to any actual documents. You can say this increases friction, but the tradeoff is that it promotes a system of organization that becomes faster overall when I have large numbers of documents.
Or again, the issue of uncategorized files: you say it's like saving a document in /, but when I save a file on my local machine it doesn't put it in / first and then as a second step I have to manually put it somewhere else. But that's how most tagging systems work: documents go into the soup of the untagged list by default, I have to manually tag it if that's what I care about. Again, it's normalizing an approach where you dump things in and organize them later except the second step usually doesn't happen.
Like I said before, it's not that I don't think tagging could be used with discipline to maintain organization, it's that systems that rely on tagging tend to design their interfaces in a way where tagging is at most an afterthought and often isn't done at all. Whereas on my desktop I literally can't save a file without putting it somewhere in the file hierarchy, and the UI is designed to put that hierarchy front and center.
- burtonator 8y agoAh! That screenshot is out of date. https://i.imgur.com/hXizVHG.png https://i.imgur.com/hXizVHG.png Tags are now front and center and on by default in the UI. You can easily filter by tag too: https://i.imgur.com/9N5ZMi6.png https://i.imgur.com/9N5ZMi6.png Polar 2.0 will be web based ... there have been thousands of people checking out the website but not many people downloading the app. Had it been web based I don't think that would have been an issue. I think they would have started using it. > it doesn't put it in / first and then as a second step I have to manually put it somewhere else. no.. but it will pick either the users home or their Documents or their Downloads. That's not much better.