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Like beOS/Haiku does! Metadata and dynamic grouping of files + search is an amazing concept

• Hnrobert42 5y ago
  Interesting. Sounds like Gmail’s labels vs everyone else’s folders. I wonder if it is a patent holding things back.
  • OJFord 5y ago
    No, Fastmail uses labels, and is also the org behind JMAP, which uses them natively. Folders are so common in email because that's built-in to IMAP.
    • vidarh 5y ago
      Folders are so common still in part because many of us want them to the point that both Fastmail and Gmail lets you use tags in ways that behaves almost entirely like folders, including a hierarchy. I'd never consider an e-mail system (or a filesystem) that doesn't allow me to at least very closely approximate that structure.
  • paledot 5y ago
    ProtonMail launched with labels only. They later added folders for those of us who like to file messages under "organized now, don't want to think about this again".