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You've eloquently expressed something I've been feeling for a long time, but couldn't put into words myself. Bookmarks and file systems are frustrating ways to
by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 5y ago
You've eloquently expressed something I've been feeling for a long time, but couldn't put into words myself. Bookmarks and file systems are frustrating ways to organize digital thingies.
- CRConrad 5y agoSo what would be a less frustrating way -- tagging everything with as many (or as few?) keywords as possible, and then ad-hoc searches as looking through "virtual folders"[1,2] with the tag as the "folder name"? And more systematic ones as (SQL-style?) queries of tags with "AND" and "OR" logical operators? Or something else? ___ [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27916648 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27916648 [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27916467 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27916467
- rrrrrrrrrrrryan 5y agoYes - extremely rich metadata combined with robust search features. For example: "I want to see all..." - excel files - that I myself have created (not downloaded) - anywhere on my hard drive - tagged with a particular project name - containing a particular word inside the file - sorted by "last opened" date Then ideally you'd be able to save this search/filter/view for future use. This isn't impossible to accomplish today, but it's so painful and slow that you're basically forced to fall back to folder hierarchies for organization.