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Your argument seems to come up a fair amount in these discussions. In the end, you have to deal with storage of many items, and you can either browse or search.
by bachmeier 3y ago
Your argument seems to come up a fair amount in these discussions. In the end, you have to deal with storage of many items, and you can either browse or search. The browse approach requires you to know where you'll be browsing in the future. The searching approach requires you to know what to search for. No system is going to deliver all relevant documents, but you can do a good enough job with a hierarchical system plus search.
- hotsauceror 3y agoI think this is exactly right, and it is a facet of the same discoverability issues that crop up when people talk about GUI vs CLI - one is more useful when you're discovering, and one when you are searching. Tags are really set-based search operations like a SQL query, but the 'primary key' is the filename, and if you knew that you'd just search for it. You're rarely going to have a tag or attribute that can pinpoint a single document.