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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 im
by 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 agoFolders 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 agoAs 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.