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> It's an interesting combination of incredible ideas with unusable ones haha yes, I agree. > It is unclear to me how this is supposed to work with large amou
by angleofrepose 7y ago
> It's an interesting combination of incredible ideas with unusable ones
haha yes, I agree.
> It is unclear to me how this is supposed to work with large amounts of content: how is this supposed to work with tens or hundreds of thousands of files? Either you end up adding dozens of tags to every file, or the tags devolve into a path-like structure, defeating the purpose.
This project, and other real tagging systems take this into account. It is not defeating the purpose if you end up with something like a hierarchy for certain things in your file system, and that is allowed for by nesting tags. The best system is not one or the other, it is both. A quick example: A lot of projects have a large number of files, but only a small number you care about or are actively editing/reading whatever. Imagine a hierarchical style system for containing the large mess of files, and a tagging system for having each of the ones you care about at hand. This is of course possible with symlinks, but this project attempts to allow for this kind of organization effortlessly.
> but seems quite useless when we still need a mouse for precision stuff.
again, why not both? I prefer to not use the mouse whenever I can, but I enjoy using it when precision with a pointer becomes required.
> The same applies to email, bookmarks, contacts, books, and all the other stuff mentioned.
he does scare you off a bit in that demo video when it says: "and everything is there!" I agree. There is work to be done with tagging systems, best practices and getting mind share, but it is a system that has been in the works for decades, and I believe will eventually become widespread standard alongside the falling of walled gardens. But that's besides the point.
There are cool ideas here, and while they may have mostly been implemented I look forward to the day where all these desktop innovations can be easily brought together or disabled on an individual level with great ease. I think there are orders of magnitude easier and more efficient solutions waiting for us to put them together on modern hardware.