First off, this is clearly just a promotion for "Didgets"... which seems like a cool idea, but the problem is the article presents a solution by framing normal-

First off, this is clearly just a promotion for "Didgets"... which seems like a cool idea, but the problem is the article presents a solution by framing normal-computer-user file organization as a problem to be solved (it really isn't). OP does this instead of identifying an actual use case. OP - you are losing people this way. Normal users do not have "200 million records" they are trying to search for by file type or name. Get a better pitch than this for whatever you trying to solve. > If you have ever forgotten where you stored a file in a file system Nope, never happened to me. > File systems let you store any file in any folder, regardless of whether the folder path is appropriate for the file YES, exactly, that is a feature, not a problem. If it is not appropriate for the file, you only have yourself to blame for putting it there in the first place. > Even if you remember some parts of the file name > searching by file extension may or may not turn up the file you were looking for Who searches for file by name? Names mean nothing. You find the file by navigating down the relevant hierarchy based on what you are looking for. By file type, are you kidding me? A hierarchical file system is ideal as the basis of file organization. Tags and search can be added on top of that (and admittedly have room for improvement) if you really struggle to handle organizing your files by yourself (or some unstated use case the OP has in mind). I'm struggling to figure out how the OP operates... at some level they seem like a computer illiterate person who saves everything to the desktop then struggles to find stuff. But, I'm sure that is not actually the case... so do they just fail at making an attempt to organize? I'd be interested to better understand what type of files they have so many of that they have to resort to constantly searching by file name or type and need a faster way to do that.