> "When i look for things on my computer, i don't have a vague concept of an idea of a thing i'm looking for, i look for specific things for specific purposes."

> "When i look for things on my computer, i don't have a vague concept of an idea of a thing i'm looking for, i look for specific things for specific purposes." What you're describing is that this sort of system excels at. By describing the properties of the specific file you're looking for, the tagging system can locate it very rapidly. Without a tagging system, knowing the file you're looking for is like knowing the bookshelf your book is on. If the book shelf is small, you can look at each book in sequence and find the one you're looking for. When your bookshelf is very long, it pays to reduce the set of files you're looking for. >"Why would i need everything on my computer related to cats showing up if i'm looking for say, a cat sprite in a game i'm working on vs a picture of my cat or say a cat meme? I have no need for the other two things if i'm looking for one of those things." If you have a single cat sprite, and search the intersection of 'cat' and 'sprite', then that single cat sprite would be returned to you. Consider instead you have in mind a particular photograph of a cat and a dog, on a car. Perhaps you know you put that image in your cats directory, which has a thousand images because you're an avid fan of cats. To find that particular cat image, you'd need to search through a thousand images sequentially, unless you happen to remember the precise filename of that single image out of a thousand. Thumbnails will help, but that search is still going to take way longer than it should. If your collection of cat images is properly tagged, then you can instantly get a list of the intersection between cat, dog, and car. That list is going to be much shorter than 1000 images. It will take you seconds at most to glance through it and find the precise image you were looking for. With terabyte harddrives being dirt cheap commodities, there is no real reason the average person couldn't or shouldn't have hundreds of thousands to millions of files at least. The reason most people don't is because with the organizational software currently available to them, (e.g. windows explorer) there is no feasible way for them to keep that many files organized. There is no good reason that should be the case.