Recently I realized that when you had paper documents—books, manuals, libraries, filing systems, whatever—the only way to make them accessible at all was to hav

Recently I realized that when you had paper documents—books, manuals, libraries, filing systems, whatever—the only way to make them accessible at all was to have organizing principles. Some of these were brilliant. Most people gave all that up because "search." But aside from search being flawed (good luck finding an old Google Doc), when information was actually organized, you might be able to remember where it was. Without structure, you can't remember where it is because it isn't really anywhere.