Not necessarily. The biggest problem I've had with tags is consistency. When I'm tagging photos of my kids, every time I have to remember "did I tag these wit

Not necessarily. The biggest problem I've had with tags is consistency. When I'm tagging photos of my kids, every time I have to remember "did I tag these with kids, rebecca, becky, daughter, or children?" It gets tedious. Sure, you can maintain a list of commonly-used tags, but that list often changes on a per workflow basis. Folders give you the benefits of tags with a hierarchy and smaller search space. When I open my work folder, I see a list of each of my projects. From there, I can go into that project, and see directories that are specific to that project. In a tag-based system, I have to remember all of the requisite tags from the beginning, or I have to go through an iterative process adding tags, seeing if I got the right one, and if so, then looking at the new list of suggested tags. Folders let the computer remember how things are organized and lets the human select from that organization. Also, this article gets the details wrong. For example, you certainly can nest folders in the real world. Take a personnel file cabinet, with a 2012 drawer, with a hang folder for each employee that contains a manila folder labeled timecards. That's 4 levels of nesting and it works fine.