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Its better then having folders. Folders are meaningless in organization of multimedia. Better to use tags as they are more flexible. Then you create virtual fo

Its better then having folders. Folders are meaningless in organization of multimedia. Better to use tags as they are more flexible. Then you create virtual folders via tag search. You can show them as tabs or have them in the menu to select. Single book can be in more then one virtual folder that way - for example in Biology and Programming. But no trees of any kind.

groby_b 8y ago
Folders aren't "meaningless", they provide relational information (in form of a hierarchy), something that tags are really bad at. It's not folders that are important, it's subfolders. Many fields have an implicit hierarchical organization, and reflecting that in some way is extremely helpful. As are tags. Ideally, you want both.
- majkinetor 8y ago
  Folders are special case of tags. Tags can be organized better - its easy to create tag exclusion groups, something that for example Gitlab recently added in the form of tag1::tag2 so when you put one of those any existing one gets removed You can get folders from tags within VFS, for examle TMSU does this ( a x-platform file tagging system).
  - groby_b 8y ago
    As a user? I don't care a lick. Of course we can map any kind of relational system into a series of strings. What matters is support to do it in an intuitive way. Nested folders are intuitive, in terms of organizing, browsing, and highlighting the existing structure when adding new items. Tags fail at least at the last two without UI support.
solarkraft 8y ago
Slightly OT: I want to use tags for my files (general, not books) - is there a good manager out there for that (Linux, but preferably cross-platform)?
- majkinetor 8y ago
  There isn't. I search for one for years. Here are some FYI: https://tmsu.org/ https://tmsu.org/ https://www.tagspaces.org/ https://www.tagspaces.org/ http://www.tagflow.ch/en/ http://www.tagflow.ch/en/

groby_b 8y ago

Folders aren't "meaningless", they provide relational information (in form of a hierarchy), something that tags are really bad at. It's not folders that are important, it's subfolders. Many fields have an implicit hierarchical organization, and reflecting that in some way is extremely helpful. As are tags. Ideally, you want both.

majkinetor 8y ago
Folders are special case of tags. Tags can be organized better - its easy to create tag exclusion groups, something that for example Gitlab recently added in the form of tag1::tag2 so when you put one of those any existing one gets removed You can get folders from tags within VFS, for examle TMSU does this ( a x-platform file tagging system).
- groby_b 8y ago
  As a user? I don't care a lick. Of course we can map any kind of relational system into a series of strings. What matters is support to do it in an intuitive way. Nested folders are intuitive, in terms of organizing, browsing, and highlighting the existing structure when adding new items. Tags fail at least at the last two without UI support.

solarkraft 8y ago

Slightly OT: I want to use tags for my files (general, not books) - is there a good manager out there for that (Linux, but preferably cross-platform)?

majkinetor 8y ago
There isn't. I search for one for years. Here are some FYI: https://tmsu.org/ https://tmsu.org/ https://www.tagspaces.org/ https://www.tagspaces.org/ http://www.tagflow.ch/en/ http://www.tagflow.ch/en/