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What can you do with folders that you cannot with tags?
by endisneigh 5y ago
What can you do with folders that you cannot with tags?
- mro_name 5y agoexclusivity.
- endisneigh 5y agoyou can do that with tags tho.
- sseagull 5y agoIt’s not about ability, but mindset. Folders are tree structures where each file lives in only one place (in practice, hard links are uncommon, and symlinks are more common but obvious). That abstraction is useful when navigating, looking for related files, etc. Tags are more general. Yes, they could implement the features of folders, but the connotation of tags is that they are flat and unstructured.
- bccdee 5y agoSometimes programs implement hierarchical tags, and that appeals to me the most. That way, you can navigate hierarchies of tags the same way you would navigate hierarchies of folders, but there's more than one hierarchy that can be navigated. And because you don't need to worry about encoding every piece of information into a single path, the hierarchies can be shallower and more convenient.