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> The hierarchical nature of traditional filesystems is great when you want to "visit" everything Not really more than tags. Tags are superior to hierarchy of
by polote 5y ago
> The hierarchical nature of traditional filesystems is great when you want to "visit" everything
Not really more than tags. Tags are superior to hierarchy of folders when a content can belongs to several folders. If you have very different folders, like 'Finance' and 'My pictures' then folders are going to be better. The issue with tags, is that if they are not restricted to a folder, you will have hundreds of them and you will have a hard time managing them.
The best trade off I have found is to create a hierarchy of fat folders (a few very distinct big folders) and a different tags taxonomy inside each one of them. If you want to tags content of different folders you need a new tag taxonomy only for cross tagging content.
To sum up:
- Hierarchical folders
- Each folder has its own tag list
- A Meta tags list to tag cross-folders content (which I prefer to call "collections")
- rkagerer 5y ago> Not really more than tags All I meant is there are use cases where you only want each item to show up once (eg. show me a list of all my files). In my product, a file with multiple tags would show up in multiple folders - which is great until you hit one of the above use cases. One way to accommodate is to just classify according to the "primary" tag in such circumstances (provided its clear the eg. first tag has some added weight).